Re: [RFC] Splitting kernel headers and deprecating __KERNEL__

Alexandre Oliva
2004-11-27T03:52:27Z

On Nov 25, 2004, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:

> There's no _real_ need to keep them. All we need to fix is a handful of
> libc implementations; anything else using them was broken anyway.

It's not as simple as *fixing* them. They'd have to go through a
transition period in which they support both formats, which probably
implies a mess of ifdefs or, worse, macro expansion in #include
directives.

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