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From: Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>
To: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	"Hack inc." <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Is that an acceptable interface change?
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 17:15:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060306161512.GB23513@dspnet.fr.eu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9a8748490603060755r55b3584bpf0a16451a57925b5@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 04:55:02PM +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> Userspace apps should not include kernel headers, period.
> So, userspace applications really shouldn't care.

Please excuse me if I'm a little dense here, but the kernel headers
_define_ the userspace-kernel interface.  If you don't have them or a
sanitized copy of them you just can't talk with the kernel at all.

  OG.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-06 16:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-06  1:17 Olivier Galibert
2006-03-06  7:52 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-06 15:50   ` Olivier Galibert
2006-03-06 15:55     ` Jesper Juhl
2006-03-06 16:15       ` Olivier Galibert [this message]
2006-03-06 16:20         ` Jesper Juhl
2006-03-06 16:25         ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-03-06 17:00         ` Paul Jackson
2006-03-06 17:23       ` Christopher Friesen

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