From: Mariusz Mazur <mmazur@kernel.pl>
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Subject: Re: Userland headers available
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 20:04:47 +0100
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On Friday 23 of January 2004 19:47, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> I've done precisely the same thing for Debian - if I find the time,
> I'll compare...

How much testing did you have?

> I would really like to come up with an approach to maintain this
> interface definition in the kernel source.  I'm still trying to think
> of a way to do it without breaking compatibility or kernel builds.

As I really would like that (less work for me :) I do not think this is 
possible. First thing - 2.4 compatibility in 2.6 kernel would seem weird to 
say at least. Second - I've ripped out kernel code where I could and used 
glibc includes instead - this is (a) The Right Thing (tm) and (b) practically 
undoable inside kernel or would require huge amounts of work, which is really 
better of left outside.

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