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Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 14:08:44 -0700
From: "Kevin P. Fleming" <kpfleming@cox.net>
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To: "ismail (cartman) donmez" <kde@myrealbox.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] include/linux/sysctl.h needs linux/compiler.h
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ismail (cartman) donmez wrote:

> On Saturday 31 May 2003 23:32, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> 
>>See the beginning of my message... it only does so if _KERNEL_ is
>>defined. Since other header files also directly include compiler.h even
>>though they already include kernel.h, I didn't think this was an
>>unreasonable solution (i.e. they must have done it for the same reason,
>>since there are comments specifically about including compiler.h for
>>"__user").
>>
> 
> 
> Thats a bigger problem and should be solved like  ( imho ) with higher level 
> of kernel api which provides userspace apps kernel level operations.
> 

Right. But until such time as that happens (even if started today that's 
many months away), real world libraries need to be compiled to be used 
against the new kernel.

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