From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alexey Starikovskiy Subject: Re: /usr/include/*/acpi.h Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 14:02:08 +0300 Message-ID: <459CDEB0.5040302@linux.intel.com> References: <200701031552.37919.lenb@kernel.org> <1167900335.14297.23.camel@prodigy.suse.de> <20070104104945.GA31430@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mga06.intel.com ([134.134.136.21]:19564 "EHLO orsmga101.jf.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932343AbXADLCI (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Jan 2007 06:02:08 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20070104104945.GA31430@suse.de> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Thorsten Kukuk Cc: Thomas Renninger , Len Brown , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, pbaudis@suse.cz Thorsten Kukuk wrote: > On Thu, Jan 04, Thomas Renninger wrote: > > >> On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 15:52 -0500, Len Brown wrote: >> >>> Thomas, >>> Why do the following files appear in OpenSuse 10.2? >>> >>> $ find /usr/include -name '*acpi*' >>> /usr/include/asm/acpi.h >>> /usr/include/asm-x86_64/acpi.h >>> /usr/include/asm-i386/acpi.h >>> /usr/include/linux/acpi.h >>> /usr/include/linux/pci-acpi.h >>> >>> They are not present on a Fedora Core 6 system. >>> >> No idea. I never used them and I don't know any user space tool using >> them. >> > > This header files are part of the linux kernel, and thus of course > available in /usr/include/{asm,linux}. > > Thorsten > > Not all kernel headers have a meaning to user space, and not all of them should be available there. More, none of the ACPI linux kernel headers have meaning to user space applications, thus they "of course" should not be available. Regards, Alex.