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From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Drop an empty byteorder/generic.h from being exported to userspace.
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:20:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47F35DF5.5010201@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0804012134300.10852@localhost.localdomain>

On 04/02/2008 03:38 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> Since the entire meaningful contents of generic.h is wrapped by the
> __KERNEL__ test, drop it from being passed to userspace, and remove
> the now superfluous __KERNEL__ test.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
> 
> ---
> 
>   is there some value in allowing an effectively empty header file to
> be exported to userspace?

Not breaking the userspace? The file is included in non-__KERNEL__ sections from 
byteorder/*_endian.h.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-02 10:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-02  1:38 [PATCH] Drop an empty byteorder/generic.h from being exported to userspace Robert P. J. Day
2008-04-02 10:20 ` Jiri Slaby [this message]
2008-04-02 11:00   ` Robert P. J. Day
2008-04-02 11:01     ` Jiri Slaby
2008-04-02 11:02       ` Robert P. J. Day

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