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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Cc: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>, Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] Delete export of tty.h to userspace.
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 14:57:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070719135707.GA16279@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707190715320.25024@localhost.localdomain>

On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 07:17:07AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> so you're saying you'll drop that include from util-linux, is that it?
> but it's still a good plan to generate a warning whenever userspace
> includes that file, so i'll submit a quick patch to generate that,
> based on jiri's suggestion.

Not exporting it at all gives an error which is a lot better.  Just look
at all the warnings most userspace spews, they'd never even notice it
otherwise.


  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-19 14:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-18  9:24 [PATCH][RFC] Delete export of tty.h to userspace Robert P. J. Day
2007-07-18 20:18 ` Jiri Slaby
2007-07-18 20:33   ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-07-18 22:38     ` Karel Zak
2007-07-19 11:17       ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-07-19 13:57         ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2007-07-19 15:27           ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-07-19 15:32           ` Jiri Slaby
2007-07-19 16:10             ` Robert P. J. Day

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