From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262766AbUEBAEY (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 May 2004 20:04:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262768AbUEBAEY (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 May 2004 20:04:24 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:47804 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262766AbUEBAEX (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 May 2004 20:04:23 -0400 Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 17:03:38 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Chris Wedgwood Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, bunk@fs.tum.de, eyal@eyal.emu.id.au, linux-dvb-maintainer@linuxtv.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.6-rc3: modular DVB tda1004x broken Message-Id: <20040501170338.1934beb5.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20040502000046.GA24649@taniwha.stupidest.org> References: <408F9BD8.8000203@eyal.emu.id.au> <20040501201342.GL2541@fs.tum.de> <20040501161035.67205a1f.akpm@osdl.org> <20040502000046.GA24649@taniwha.stupidest.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) 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 Chris Wedgwood wrote: > > On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 04:55:30PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > Yes. Except we should probably only do this for __KERNEL_SYSCALLS__, > > since it's possible that somebody is still using this in user space > > (it pre-glibc people). > > I'm confused. > > I thought it has been decreed using kernel headers in userspace was a > bad idea (DONT DO THAT) so in theory we can just ignore this issue? > I prefer not to break stuff which people are currently using, particularly when avoiding the breakage is a simple thing.