From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754424AbYDBKUu (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Apr 2008 06:20:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751721AbYDBKUm (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Apr 2008 06:20:42 -0400 Received: from mu-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.134.190]:43286 "EHLO mu-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751852AbYDBKUl (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Apr 2008 06:20:41 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=mUjLtqCLfuCDSxHRZyZbubfZgrkqVYiQ4nTWNiHo0DFY1ufhL2ortBpNpP8e4PmvDl05ZZIg0V8ITmR3H6IMDpwO0A2kJzbwwcY8RGgacf0CVl8uOPHaITHjW/BgF5euf4Y5QHzfJzBtx4gJH03+gA+ezYA/DsU6bFisV0Ef6KI= Message-ID: <47F35DF5.5010201@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:20:37 +0200 From: Jiri Slaby User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Robert P. J. Day" CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] Drop an empty byteorder/generic.h from being exported to userspace. References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 > > --- > > 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.