From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965107AbXADXhd (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Jan 2007 18:37:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965105AbXADXhd (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Jan 2007 18:37:33 -0500 Received: from shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net ([24.71.223.10]:24687 "EHLO pd5mo1so.prod.shaw.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965101AbXADXhc (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Jan 2007 18:37:32 -0500 Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 17:36:03 -0600 From: Robert Hancock Subject: Re: /usr/include/*/acpi.h In-reply-to: To: linux-kernel Cc: Petr Baudis , Len Brown Message-id: <459D8F63.2020504@shaw.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Petr Baudis wrote: > On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 04:15:45PM CET, Len Brown wrote: >>>> This header files are part of the linux kernel, and thus of course >>>> available in /usr/include/{asm,linux}. >> So you pick up all of the kernel include/linux and include/asm*? >> (but exclude include/acpi/, which is as much a kernel header as the above) > > Yes, we do not exclude any files from the kernel headers package, since > it is safer to have an extra file there than miss something that > something in userspace *could* need - or that is not needed now but can > silently become useful for something userspace in the future. An "all > headers part of the linux kernel" is much safer definition than "a > somewhat random selection of kernel headers". I wouldn't agree with this. We have what headers are to be used in userspace now well defined with the "make headers_install" feature in the kernel, which is what Fedora Core 6 is basing its kernel headers on. Including all headers is simply asking for userspace to use functions, etc. from the kernel source which they have no business using. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from hancockr@nospamshaw.ca Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/