From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262443AbUK3XSI (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Nov 2004 18:18:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262441AbUK3XPL (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Nov 2004 18:15:11 -0500 Received: from zcars04e.nortelnetworks.com ([47.129.242.56]:24705 "EHLO zcars04e.nortelnetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262437AbUK3XLB (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Nov 2004 18:11:01 -0500 Message-ID: <41ACFDAF.3040209@nortelnetworks.com> Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 17:09:35 -0600 X-Sybari-Space: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 From: Chris Friesen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Hellwig CC: Matt Mackall , Linus Torvalds , David Woodhouse , Alexandre Oliva , Paul Mackerras , Greg KH , Matthew Wilcox , David Howells , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, libc-hacker@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFC] Splitting kernel headers and deprecating __KERNEL__ References: <1101828924.26071.172.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> <1101832116.26071.236.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> <1101837135.26071.380.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> <20041130224851.GH8040@waste.org> <20041130225128.GA31216@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20041130225128.GA31216@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Christoph Hellwig wrote: >>b) when include/user is deemed sufficiently populated, a flag day is >>declared and links from /usr/include are switched to them > > > there are no such links, only copies (more or less modified) This may be somewhat heretical, but someone has to ask... Once include/user/foo.h is sufficiently clean and sufficiently complete, is there any reason to not allow such links? Chris