From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: useless asm/page.h exported to userspace for some architectures
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 17:42:27 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070104174227.GA7593@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8bd0f97a0701032300u1b1b45c7jebd3dbddfb1df27d@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 02:00:20AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> most architectures (pretty much everyone but like x86/x86_64/s390)
> export empty asm/page.h headers ... considering how useless these are,
> why bother exporting them at all ? clearly userspace is unable to
> rely on it across architectures, so by making it available to the two
> most common (x86/x86_64), applications crop up that build "fine" on
> them but fail just about everywhere else
It should not be exported to userspace at all. Care to submit a patch?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-04 17:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-04 7:00 Mike Frysinger
2007-01-04 17:42 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2007-01-07 15:29 ` David Woodhouse
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