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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Bring in all the Linux headers we depend on in	QEMU
Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 16:01:33 +0200
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On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 08:13:16AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> The fact is, linux-libc-dev is *not* meant for applications to use as 
> the official kernel ABI.  We shouldn't depend on it.

Umm, it is.  That's exactly the reason what it is for.  Note that the
name of the package varies depending on the distro, but those headers
in /usr/include/linux/ are the ABI for features not shimed by libc.