Subject: Re: [RFC] Splitting kernel headers and deprecating __KERNEL__
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
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On Sat, 2004-11-27 at 15:27 -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> That's addressing a different problem.  I agree with
> David W. that we need to clean the kernel headers up.
> Let libc or libxyz provide the missing functionality.
> The borken programs were stealing something that wasn't
> promised to them AFAIK.

Not only wasn't it promised; it wasn't even working on some
architectures anyway.

-- 
dwmw2

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