Subject: Re: [RFC] Splitting kernel headers and deprecating __KERNEL__
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 15:13 +0000, David Howells wrote:
> We've been discussing splitting the kernel headers into userspace API headers
> and kernel internal headers and deprecating the __KERNEL__ macro. This will
> permit a cleaner interface between the kernel and userspace; and one that's
> easier to keep up to date.
> 
> What we've come up with is this:

I've already done something vaguely along those lines, extracting
user-visible bits from include/linux/mtd/*.h, putting them into files in
include/mtd/*.h and including them from there (except for jffs2.h which
currently does it backwards).

-- 
dwmw2

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