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On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 22:33 -0500, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 08:35:01AM +0530, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
> > Hello Sam, David,
> > 
> > /home/jaswinder/jaswinder-git/linux-2.6-tip/usr/include/mtd/jffs2-user.h:20: extern's make no sense in userspace
> > 
> 
> This file is for userspace only, and it makes sense where it's used
> (mtd-utils.)
> 
> In general though, this file doesn't actually depend on the kernel and
> could be entirely provided from the userspace library.
> 

If this file is _ONLY_ for userspace and kernel cannot use it then what
is the point of keeping this file in kernel headers.

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JSR