Re: [PATCH] Unexport asm/user.h and linux/user.h

Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:

Do not export asm/user.h and linux/user.h during make headers_install.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: David Woodhouse <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>

The version that is in there is currently broken from a user-space perspective (gdb expects u_ar0 to be struct user_regs_struct *, which it isn't for a bunch of the architectures defined); it *could* be argued the right thing is to fix it up since it *does* export an ABI -- specifically, the format of a.out core dumps -- but it is probably easier to just axe it; userspace has had to deal with this issue on its own for a long time already.

As such,

Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>

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