Re: [RFC] Splitting kernel headers and deprecating __KERNEL__

Matt Mackall
2004-11-30T23:38:48Z

On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 05:09:35PM -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
> >>b) when include/user is deemed sufficiently populated, a flag day is
> >>declared and links from /usr/include are switched to them
> >
> >
> >there are no such links, only copies (more or less modified)

Indeed.

> This may be somewhat heretical, but someone has to ask...
>
> Once include/user/foo.h is sufficiently clean and sufficiently complete, is
> there any reason to not allow such links?

Briefly it's preferable not to need the kernel source nor a particular
version of the kernel source around to compile things. Though a
complete include/user makes building a proper kernel-headers package
to install in /usr/include pretty trivial.

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