Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261406AbUK1HVG (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Nov 2004 02:21:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261407AbUK1HVG (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Nov 2004 02:21:06 -0500 Received: from [213.146.154.40] ([213.146.154.40]:5297 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261406AbUK1HVE (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Nov 2004 02:21:04 -0500 Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 07:20:49 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: David Woodhouse , "Randy.Dunlap" , Matthew Wilcox , Tonnerre , David Howells , torvalds@osdl.org, hch@infradead.org, aoliva@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, libc-hacker@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFC] Splitting kernel headers and deprecating __KERNEL__ Message-ID: <20041128072049.GA20169@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Arnd Bergmann , David Woodhouse , "Randy.Dunlap" , Matthew Wilcox , Tonnerre , David Howells , torvalds@osdl.org, aoliva@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, libc-hacker@sources.redhat.com References: <19865.1101395592@redhat.com> <41A8AF8F.8060005@osdl.org> <1101575782.21273.5347.camel@baythorne.infradead.org> <200411272353.54056.arnd@arndb.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200411272353.54056.arnd@arndb.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.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: 557 Lines: 13 > The problem with these (atomic.h, bitops.h, byteorder.h, div64.h, > list.h, spinlock.h, unaligned.h and xor.h) is that they provide > functionality that is needed by many user application but not > provided by the compiler or libc. It's already broken on many architectures and just happens to work on some. - 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/