From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 9 Jun 2002 17:04:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 9 Jun 2002 17:04:27 -0400 Received: from saturn.cs.uml.edu ([129.63.8.2]:59406 "EHLO saturn.cs.uml.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 9 Jun 2002 17:04:27 -0400 From: "Albert D. Cahalan" Message-Id: <200206092104.g59L4JD448386@saturn.cs.uml.edu> Subject: Re: [patch] fat/msdos/vfat crud removal To: thunder@ngforever.de (Thunder from the hill) Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2002 17:04:18 -0400 (EDT) Cc: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman), davej@suse.de (Dave Jones), acahalan@cs.uml.edu (Albert D. Cahalan), hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp (OGAWA Hirofumi), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, chaffee@cs.berkeley.edu In-Reply-To: from "Thunder from the hill" at Jun 09, 2002 01:00:05 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Thunder from the h writes: > On 9 Jun 2002, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> #include >> and >> #include >> are no longer supported. Try "are no longer supplied by raw kernel source" instead. They damn well better exist, cleaned up for non-kernel use. > Stop! The reason for _some_ includes there is actually to keep some > definitions in sync with the kernel, e.g. errno values! Stopping them > altogether is a Really Bad Thing[tm], IMO, since it means users will have > to get a new glibc with almost every kernel they have (don't tell me we > don't change much!). > > I'm against it. Too late. You're WAY too late. This is on a Debian box: $ /bin/ls -ldog /usr/include/linux drwxr-xr-x 11 root 28672 Jun 4 19:41 /usr/include/linux As you can see, a kernel upgrade would do nothing to change the headers in /usr/include/linux.