From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161008AbWLIPAU (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Dec 2006 10:00:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161051AbWLIPAU (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Dec 2006 10:00:20 -0500 Received: from mo-p07-ob.rzone.de ([81.169.146.189]:54613 "EHLO mo-p07-ob.rzone.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161008AbWLIPAS (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Dec 2006 10:00:18 -0500 Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 15:58:01 +0100 (MET) From: Stefan Rompf To: Thomas Graf Subject: Re: [NETLINK]: Schedule removal of old macros exported to userspace User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: David Miller , drow@false.org, dwmw2@infradead.org, joseph@codesourcery.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, libc-alpha@sourceware.org, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20061208.134752.131916271.davem@davemloft.net> <200612091249.39302.stefan@loplof.de> <20061209125533.GO8693@postel.suug.ch> In-Reply-To: <20061209125533.GO8693@postel.suug.ch> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200612091559.05232.stefan@loplof.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Am Samstag, 9. Dezember 2006 13:55 schrieb Thomas Graf: > Please calm down a bit. I didn't claim that glibc should be linking to > libnl. glibc is obviously a special case which can simply copy the existing > macros into some internal compat header just like any other application > that doesn't wish to use any of the libraries available. But when even glibc needs internal compat headers to compile with the second kernel version that provides userspace headers, what is the long-term - even mid-term - perspective of make headers_install then? Stefan