From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932617AbXGRWig (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jul 2007 18:38:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760643AbXGRWi0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jul 2007 18:38:26 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:53876 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760718AbXGRWiZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jul 2007 18:38:25 -0400 Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 00:38:20 +0200 From: Karel Zak To: "Robert P. J. Day" Cc: Jiri Slaby , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Alan Cox Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] Delete export of tty.h to userspace. Message-ID: <20070718223820.GF3181@petra.dvoda.cz> References: <469E7599.4060608@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 04:33:12PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Jiri Slaby wrote: > > > Robert P. J. Day napsal(a): > > > given that the entire contents of include/linux/tty.h is contained > > > within an "#ifdef __KERNEL__", it seems pointless to export it to > > > userspace, unless there's some kind of need for that header file to > > > exist in userspace, even if it's empty. > > > > > > a quick grep shows that nothing under /usr/include references any > > > file of the name "tty.h" in any way. thoughts? > > > > If we decide to remove the file, I would rather go through > > deprecation of the file with filing an entry in > > feature-remove-schedule. There still seems to be some users of the > > file. > > i'm curious -- how did you determine that? $ grep "tty.h" util-linux/sys-utils/cytune.c #include ... I'll fix it in util-linux-ng. Karel -- Karel Zak