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From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Kernel header inclusion practice
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2017 14:32:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170705123240.GA26951@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <34715BDE-086F-4ADA-BAF8-FB0435781519@introo.me>

On Wed, Jul 05, 2017 at 08:13:08PM +0800, Shiyao Ma wrote:
> Thanks!
> 
> > On 5 Jul 2017, at 20:07, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> 
> >> If there is any documentation about the API of the headers (e.g., what
> >> they include), that will be great.
> > 
> > What exactly do you mean by this?
> 
> 
> I mean if any kernel documentation specifies what the headers provide,
> IOW, what they include, and what functions/variables they declare.
> 
> So I guess probably not, the source code of kernel headers are their
> own documentation/specification.

Yes, the source itself is always the best documentation, it's always
kept up to date :)

      reply	other threads:[~2017-07-05 12:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-05  6:50 Kernel header inclusion practice Shiyao MA
2017-07-05 12:07 ` Greg KH
2017-07-05 12:13   ` Shiyao Ma
2017-07-05 12:32     ` Greg KH [this message]

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