On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> 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?
yes, i checked the output from "make headers_install" as my first test
before proposing this. there's nothing anywhere in that output that
includes tty.h. that is, as long as i didn't screw up somewhere along
the way.
rday
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