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Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 07:00:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Drop an empty byteorder/generic.h from being exported
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On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, Jiri Slaby wrote:

> On 04/02/2008 03:38 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > Since the entire meaningful contents of generic.h is wrapped by the
> > __KERNEL__ test, drop it from being passed to userspace, and remove
> > the now superfluous __KERNEL__ test.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
> >
> > ---
> >
> >   is there some value in allowing an effectively empty header file to
> > be exported to userspace?
>
> Not breaking the userspace? The file is included in non-__KERNEL__
> sections from byteorder/*_endian.h.

ok ... and the value of including a completely empty header file is
... ?

rday
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