Christoph Hellwig napsal(a):
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 07:17:07AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>> so you're saying you'll drop that include from util-linux, is that it?
>> but it's still a good plan to generate a warning whenever userspace
>> includes that file, so i'll submit a quick patch to generate that,
>> based on jiri's suggestion.
>
> Not exporting it at all gives an error which is a lot better. Just look
> at all the warnings most userspace spews, they'd never even notice it
> otherwise.
Not directly responding to this, but keeping CCs. I though of the removal one
more time and there is one more issue (maybe). Every exported kernel header,
which includes this file outside #ifdef __KERNEL__ #endif will be broken in
userspace. Are you sure, there are no such includes?
--
Jiri Slaby ([email protected])
Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University
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