From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261206AbULAAfY (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Nov 2004 19:35:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261187AbULAAeW (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Nov 2004 19:34:22 -0500 Received: from ncc1701.cistron.net ([62.216.30.38]:62917 "EHLO ncc1701.cistron.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261199AbULAAX3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Nov 2004 19:23:29 -0500 From: "Miquel van Smoorenburg" Subject: Re: [RFC] Splitting kernel headers and deprecating __KERNEL__ Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 00:23:24 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Cistron Group Message-ID: References: <20041130224851.GH8040@waste.org> <20041130225128.GA31216@infradead.org> <41ACFDAF.3040209@nortelnetworks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: ncc1701.cistron.net 1101860604 17977 62.216.29.200 (1 Dec 2004 00:23:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@cistron.nl X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Originator: miquels@cistron-office.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg) To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In article <41ACFDAF.3040209@nortelnetworks.com>, Chris Friesen wrote: >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? It would be cleaner to use gcc -I /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/include so that you don't break regular compiles by accident. Mike.