From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Jim Gifford <maillist@jg555.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
ralf@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.18 Headers - Long
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 21:16:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1152908202.3191.98.camel@pmac.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1152905987.3159.46.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 21:39 +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 12:28 -0700, Jim Gifford wrote:
> > Unfortunately, a lot programs out there are using page.h, and a lot of
> > people are using that in their programs.
>
> .... and they're all broken....
More to the point, now we're doing this from upstream we can be
_consistent_ about telling them to sod off and fix their broken crap.
We no longer have to deal with cries of 'but it works on $SOMEDISTRO'
when another distro tries to impose some sanity rather than just
pandering to it.
Kernel headers are _not_ a library of random crap for userspace to use.
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-14 20:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-12 0:35 Jim Gifford
2006-07-14 0:25 ` David Woodhouse
2006-07-14 2:18 ` Jim Gifford
2006-07-14 18:55 ` David Woodhouse
2006-07-14 19:28 ` Jim Gifford
2006-07-14 19:39 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-07-14 20:16 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2006-07-14 20:19 ` David Miller
2006-07-14 20:57 ` Jim Gifford
2006-07-15 4:33 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-07-16 14:08 ` Nix
2006-07-15 7:19 ` David Woodhouse
2006-07-15 7:08 ` David Woodhouse
2006-07-14 19:57 ` David Woodhouse
2006-07-14 20:06 ` Erik Andersen
2006-07-14 20:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-08-26 16:09 ` David Woodhouse
2006-08-29 12:25 ` Ralf Baechle
2006-07-15 21:09 Albert Cahalan
2006-07-15 21:19 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-07-17 5:21 ` Ralf Baechle
2006-07-15 21:44 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-07-15 21:47 ` David Woodhouse
2006-07-16 6:18 ` Albert Cahalan
2006-07-16 6:26 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-07-16 8:05 ` David Woodhouse
2006-07-16 8:20 ` Jakub Jelinek
2006-07-16 12:34 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-07-16 12:48 ` Russell King
2006-07-16 18:38 ` Albert Cahalan
2006-07-16 18:53 ` Russell King
2006-07-16 19:22 ` Albert Cahalan
2006-07-16 19:41 ` Russell King
2006-07-17 1:26 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-07-17 1:23 ` David Miller
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