On [Tue, 30.10.2007 08:47], David Woodhouse wrote: > On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 13:02 +0200, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > > This series of patches unexport several unneeded(I guess) headers from > > userspace. Patches based on patch posted to linux-kernel@ by Mike Frysinger > > in July. > > Looks OK to me, in general. How much userspace have you tested building > with this? Does it include stuff like gdb? I have rebuilt gdb-6.6 on x86_64. Ok. Also, it fix building directfb on ARM. ;) > Not that I necessarily care about the answer in the normal way -- it's > just that if userspace will need to adapt, I'd like to get them moving > ASAP. One option for easing that might be to export stuff like page.h > but _empty_. It's bad idea. Taken from directfb: #if HAVE_ASM_PAGE_H #include <asm/page.h> #else #define PAGE_SIZE sysconf( _SC_PAGESIZE ) #endif Other application can use something like this. I think we should drop empty headers. -- Regards, Kirill A. Shutemov + Belarus, Minsk + Velesys LLC, http://www.velesys.com/ + ALT Linux Team, http://www.altlinux.com/
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