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To: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, chaffee@cs.berkeley.edu
Subject: Re: [patch] fat/msdos/vfat crud removal
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From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2002 16:49:54 +0900
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"Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu> writes:

> Long ago, it was considered OK to use the kernel headers
> in app code. This is the case with Linux 2.0 and libc 5.
> (it used to be OK to symlink /usr/include/linux into an
> unmodified copy of the Linux kernel source)
> 
> There has been a weak effort to avoid breaking libc 5.
> 
> Using __KERNEL__ might make it easier to provide cleaned
> headers for user code.
> 
> There has been talk of removing __KERNEL__ usage from
> some of the header files.

So, are you going to remove __KERNEL__ stuff, although the program for
linux uses it? And are you going to fix program using it?

I don't want to do.
-- 
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
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