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Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 15:40:08 +1200
From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: (patch-2.4.6) Fix oops with Iomega Clik! (ide-floppy)
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On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 06:33:45PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:

    That just generates work for the glibc folks when they are working
    off copies of kernel header snapshots as they need to

Can't we just do something like:


/* KERNEL_PRIVATE_BEGIN: blah */

struct internal organs(int foo, char *bar);

/* KERNEL_PRIVATE_END */

sort of thing? That way glibc people can use sed to eliminate bogons
and confilcts and they can also submit patches for areas of overlap
the kernel people miss --- without fear of breaking the kernel?

Seems win-win to me and stops glibc and kernel developers from having
to trip over people and will allow us to eliminate all the rediculous
numbers of __KERNEL__ checks.




  --cw
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