Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261282AbUK0RTT (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Nov 2004 12:19:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261269AbUK0RRR (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Nov 2004 12:17:17 -0500 Received: from baythorne.infradead.org ([81.187.226.107]:43444 "EHLO baythorne.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261275AbUK0RQ4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Nov 2004 12:16:56 -0500 Subject: Re: [RFC] Splitting kernel headers and deprecating __KERNEL__ From: David Woodhouse To: "Randy.Dunlap" Cc: Matthew Wilcox , Tonnerre , David Howells , torvalds@osdl.org, hch@infradead.org, aoliva@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, libc-hacker@sources.redhat.com In-Reply-To: <41A8AF8F.8060005@osdl.org> References: <19865.1101395592@redhat.com> <20041127042942.GA10774@pauli.thundrix.ch> <20041127035113.GK29035@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <41A8AF8F.8060005@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1101575782.21273.5347.camel@baythorne.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2.dwmw2.1) Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 17:16:22 +0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by baythorne.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 634 Lines: 20 On Sat, 2004-11-27 at 08:47 -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > Speaking of more explicit, there are various asm-ARCH header > files that do or do not hide (via __KERNEL__) interfaces > such as: get_unaligned() > and the atomic operations. > > So are these Linux kernel exported APIs, or do they belong > in some library? Both of those are kernel-private and should not be visible. -- dwmw2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/