From: Jonathan Lundell <linux@lundell-bros.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ethtool.h should use userspace-accessible types
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 13:48:54 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p0610032fbc77de2c9c28@[192.168.0.3]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m13c8ef11b.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
At 10:06 AM -0700 3/12/04, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>My intent was to say: Why change the types when there is no #ifdef
>__KERNEL__ in the header. With no #ifdef __KERNEL__ it exports
>definitions that are private to the kernel making it not safe for
>userspace to use. With kernel private definitions in there it will
>generate name space pollution if included by user space.
Presumably because it *is* included by userspace, because it defines
the interface between the kernel and userspace; of course userspace
will (does) include it.
--
/Jonathan Lundell.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-12 21:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-12 1:54 Eric Brower
2004-03-12 2:35 ` Tim Hockin
2004-03-12 4:57 ` Greg KH
2004-03-12 9:19 ` Tim Hockin
2004-03-12 16:25 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-03-12 16:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-12 17:06 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-03-12 21:48 ` Jonathan Lundell [this message]
2004-03-14 3:25 ` Matt Mackall
2004-03-15 21:24 ` Jonathan Lundell
2004-03-12 16:54 ` Jeff Garzik
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