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Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:01:32 +0200
From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
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To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Drop an empty byteorder/generic.h from being exported
 to userspace.
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On 04/02/2008 01:00 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> ok ... and the value of including a completely empty header file is
> ... ?

No value, you should just move those includes into the __KERNEL__ part.