[PATCH] Warn userspace about including an empty linux/tty.h.

Robert P. J. Day
2007-07-19T11:25:55Z

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>

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what subsystem would something like this belong to?

diff --git a/include/linux/tty.h b/include/linux/tty.h
index 691a174..fd67da8 100644
--- a/include/linux/tty.h
+++ b/include/linux/tty.h
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@
* 'tty.h' defines some structures used by tty_io.c and some defines.
*/

+#ifndef __KERNEL__
+#warning "Please don't include this file from userspace, it's empty."
+#endif
+
#ifdef __KERNEL__
#include <linux/fs.h>
#include <linux/major.h>
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