From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 17:31:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 17:31:24 -0400 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:33664 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 17:31:12 -0400 From: "David S. Miller" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15137.17433.417079.475731@pizda.ninka.net> Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 14:31:05 -0700 (PDT) To: Felix von Leitner Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux kernel headers violate RFC2553 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> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 13) "Crater Lake" XEmacs Lucid Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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