From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Petr Baudis Subject: Re: /usr/include/*/acpi.h Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 16:48:28 +0100 Message-ID: <20070104154828.GH13181@pasky.or.cz> References: <200701031552.37919.lenb@kernel.org> <20070104104945.GA31430@suse.de> <459CDEB0.5040302@linux.intel.com> <200701041015.45525.lenb@kernel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200701041015.45525.lenb@kernel.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Len Brown Cc: Alexey Starikovskiy , Thorsten Kukuk , Thomas Renninger , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 04:15:45PM CET, Len Brown wrote: > > > This header files are part of the linux kernel, and thus of course > > > available in /usr/include/{asm,linux}. > > So you pick up all of the kernel include/linux and include/asm*? > (but exclude include/acpi/, which is as much a kernel header as the above) Yes, we do not exclude any files from the kernel headers package, since it is safer to have an extra file there than miss something that something in userspace *could* need - or that is not needed now but can silently become useful for something userspace in the future. An "all headers part of the linux kernel" is much safer definition than "a somewhat random selection of kernel headers". -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ The meaning of Stonehenge in Traflamadorian, when viewed from above, is: "Replacement part being rushed with all possible speed." -- Kurt Vonnegut, Sirens from Titan