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Subject: Re: [RFC] Splitting kernel headers and deprecating __KERNEL__
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 21:01 +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> I'm not particularly stuck on the <user/> namespace.  We could invent
> a better name.  How about <kern/> and <arch/> to replace <linux/>
> and <asm/>?  Obviously keeping linux/ and asm/ symlinks for backwards
> compatibility.

There's no _real_ need to keep them. All we need to fix is a handful of
libc implementations; anything else using them was broken anyway.

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dwmw2