Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751281AbWCTTdS (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Mar 2006 14:33:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751290AbWCTTdS (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Mar 2006 14:33:18 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:47016 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751281AbWCTTdR (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Mar 2006 14:33:17 -0500 Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 11:33:05 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Jan Engelhardt cc: Jeff Garzik , joe.korty@ccur.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux v2.6.16 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20060320171905.GA4228@tsunami.ccur.com> <441EFCB0.6020007@garzik.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 798 Lines: 23 On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > > > strace should be using sanitized versions of the kernel headers, not directly > > including them verbatim... > > > Now, would not it be good for everyone if the in-kernel headers get > every bit of sanitation? Yes, we should strive for fairly sanitized headers. That said, Jeff is also right - people really generally shouldn't use the kernel headers directly. So the rigt answer is to do both: make sure that people don't use kernel headers, but also try to keep them reasonably clean. Linus - 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/