Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261194AbULABWs (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Nov 2004 20:22:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261192AbULABM1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Nov 2004 20:12:27 -0500 Received: from canuck.infradead.org ([205.233.218.70]:37642 "EHLO canuck.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261201AbULABGp (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Nov 2004 20:06:45 -0500 Subject: Re: [RFC] Splitting kernel headers and deprecating __KERNEL__ From: David Woodhouse To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Alexandre Oliva , dhowells , Paul Mackerras , Greg KH , Matthew Wilcox , hch@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, libc-hacker@sources.redhat.com In-Reply-To: References: <19865.1101395592@redhat.com> <20041125165433.GA2849@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <1101406661.8191.9390.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> <20041127032403.GB10536@kroah.com> <16810.24893.747522.656073@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <8219.1101828816@redhat.com> <1101854061.4574.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1101858657.4574.33.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1101860688.4574.50.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1101862057.4574.67.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 01:06:17 +0000 Message-Id: <1101863177.4574.71.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 (2.0.2-3.dwmw2.1) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by canuck.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: 821 Lines: 20 On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 16:57 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > This isn't even a "fix". It's a cleanup. It goes under the same rules > a spelling fix does. So you don't see a long-term technical benefit in cleaning up the API/ABI we export to userspace so that userspace stops depending on stuff which just isn't supposed to be there? It's all just cosmetic masturbation as far as you're concerned? There's no point in trying to get to the point where we don't need to separately maintain a glibc-kernheaders package because it can be taken directly from the kernel? -- 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/