From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262153AbUK3QUR (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Nov 2004 11:20:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262165AbUK3QSr (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Nov 2004 11:18:47 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:11998 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262155AbUK3QST (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Nov 2004 11:18:19 -0500 From: David Howells In-Reply-To: References: <19865.1101395592@redhat.com> <20041125165433.GA2849@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <1101406661.8191.9390.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> <20041127032403.GB10536@kroah.com> <16810.24893.747522.656073@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <8219.1101828816@redhat.com> To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Alexandre Oliva , Paul Mackerras , Greg KH , David Woodhouse , Matthew Wilcox , hch@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Splitting kernel headers and deprecating __KERNEL__ User-Agent: EMH/1.14.1 SEMI/1.14.5 (Awara-Onsen) FLIM/1.14.5 (Demachiyanagi) APEL/10.6 Emacs/21.3 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.5 - "Awara-Onsen") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 16:18:10 +0000 Message-ID: <8906.1101831490@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > No. I told you why it cannot and MUST NOT be done. Repeat after me: > > WE MUST NOT POLLUTE THE NAMESPACE! Sorry, I misremembered that bit in your earlier email, but having reread it I think I have to concur with it. I don't like it very much, but I don't think there's a good way around it now. David