Marc Aurele La France <[email protected]> wrote:
> It has been more than a week now...
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 11:12:03 -0600 (MDT)
> From: Marc Aurele La France <[email protected]>
> To: Linus Torvalds
> Subject: Kernel header policy
[....]
> I am contacting you to express my concern over a growing trend in kernel
> development. I am specifically referring to changes being made to kernel
> headers that break compatibility at the userland level, where __KERNEL__
> isn't #define'd.
The policy with respect to kernel headers is /very/ simple:
T H E Y A R E N E V E R U S E D F R O M U S E R L A N D.
This general policy makes all your points (trivially) moot.
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