From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 10:07:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 10:06:37 -0400 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:20573 "EHLO frodo.biederman.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 10:05:36 -0400 To: "Albert D. Cahalan" Cc: thunder@ngforever.de (Thunder from the hill), davej@suse.de (Dave Jones), hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp (OGAWA Hirofumi), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, chaffee@cs.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [patch] fat/msdos/vfat crud removal In-Reply-To: <200206092104.g59L4JD448386@saturn.cs.uml.edu> From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: 10 Jun 2002 07:55:57 -0600 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "Albert D. Cahalan" writes: > Thunder from the h writes: > > On 9 Jun 2002, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > >> #include > >> and > >> #include > >> are no longer supported. > > Try "are no longer supplied by raw kernel source" instead. > They damn well better exist, cleaned up for non-kernel use. And user space should gradually be fixed from using them. In almost every case there are more appropriate headers to use. Basically keeping the /usr/include/linux and /usr/include/asm directories is a crutch to allow a slow user space transition. Actually by now most applications have been fixed and do not use them. The policy has been in place for several years now. Eric