From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753122AbYLCMiD (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2008 07:38:03 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752147AbYLCMhv (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2008 07:37:51 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:52909 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752635AbYLCMhu (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2008 07:37:50 -0500 Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 07:37:47 -0500 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Andi Kleen Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Sam Ravnborg , Arnd Bergmann , x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: New location for generic headers? Message-ID: <20081203123747.GA1751@infradead.org> References: <20081203003620.GA32069@basil.nowhere.org> <200812031140.02338.arnd@arndb.de> <20081203120110.GA2822@uranus.ravnborg.org> <20081203121955.GJ6703@one.firstfloor.org> <20081203122149.GA27944@infradead.org> <20081203124218.GK6703@one.firstfloor.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081203124218.GK6703@one.firstfloor.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 01:42:18PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 07:21:49AM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 01:19:55PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > The only problem I see is that it would user space use of asm/ > > > without make headers_install impossible. > > > > Well, they aren't supposed to do that anyway, so I would consider > > breaking it a good idea. > > Sorry, but working against your users is never a good strategy. It's not working against users. It's just preventing something that is a very bad thing already.