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From: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Continuing the UAPI split
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2019 13:05:19 -0500
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On 11/7/19 11:21 AM, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
>> Or just giving up and telling users they can't just directly include
>> both libc headers and kernel headers?
> 
> including both libc and linux headers is fragile and
> will break differently across the different linux
> libc implementations.

We saw this all the time working in embedded.

There ends up being a rather tight version coupling that
happens, and that's unfortunate, but a function of cost.

Fixing this so it works in the various cases is costly.

-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.