From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Marc Aurele La France <tsi@ualberta.ca>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel header policy
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 20:07:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050712030742.GB1487@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSO.4.61.0507111533340.23021@login3.srv.ualberta.ca>
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 03:37:47PM -0600, Marc Aurele La France wrote:
> I am contacting you to express my concern over a growing trend in kernel
> development. I am specifically referring to changes being made to kernel
> headers that break compatibility at the userland level, where __KERNEL__
> isn't #define'd.
Kernel headers are not to be included by userspace programs. See the
archives for details...
> b) <linux/pci.h> has been broken since 2.5.62's development cycle and has
> yet to be fixed. Here, the #include of <linux/mod_devicetable.h> needs
> to be bracked by __KERNEL__. This is another occurrence of "1)".
-ENOPATCH.
thanks,
greg k-h
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-12 3:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-11 21:37 Kernel header policy Marc Aurele La France
2005-07-11 21:56 ` Stephen Frost
2005-07-11 22:44 ` Tomasz Torcz
2005-07-12 2:06 ` Horst von Brand
2005-07-12 13:26 ` Peter Staubach
2005-07-12 13:36 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-07-12 16:30 ` Alistair John Strachan
2005-07-12 18:38 ` Jim Nance
2005-07-12 19:08 ` Eric Piel
2005-07-12 20:18 ` Tom Rini
2005-07-12 3:07 ` Greg KH [this message]
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