From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Felix von Leitner <leitner@fefe.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux kernel headers violate RFC2553
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 14:31:05 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <15137.17433.417079.475731@pizda.ninka.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010608211247.A12925@codeblau.de>
In-Reply-To: <20010608195719.A4862@fefe.de> <15137.8668.590390.10485@pizda.ninka.net> <20010608211247.A12925@codeblau.de>
Felix von Leitner writes:
> Thus spake David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com):
> > Don't user kernel headers for userspace.
>
> What choice do I have?
I didn't say anything about choice, I said "don't use kernel headers
for userspace". What part of it do you not understand.
It was decided long ago that keeping the kernel headers up to snuff
with "user space standard of the day" was not in our interests, so we
don't have "#if _POSIX == 19940XXX" type crap all over the kernel
headers.
In fact, in some headers the structures and names are purposely not
what userspace wants. In this way nobody is likely to get the ill
conception that they are meant in any way to be used by userspace.
Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-08 21:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-08 17:57 Felix von Leitner
2001-06-08 19:05 ` David S. Miller
2001-06-08 19:12 ` Felix von Leitner
2001-06-08 21:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-06-08 23:06 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-06-08 21:31 ` David S. Miller [this message]
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