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From: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] Splitting kernel headers and deprecating __KERNEL__
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On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 11:36:22PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> If people want to go beyond that, IMHO it would be simple and easy to 
> start putting new kernel headers in include/kernel (or somesuch).  That 
> way there are no massive reorganizations; kernel-specific stuff gets 
> slowly migrated to a kernel-specific area.

ITYM "to areas where it actually gets used".  A _lot_ in include/* is
used only by a couple of drivers and should've been sitting in
drivers/*/* instead.