From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderlinux@gmail.com>
Cc: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>,
Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: why usr/include/linux/if_frad.h is required
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 06:33:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090121053310.GA26395@uranus.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3f9a31f40901202050u4b85fef2p8b9848b865c4fda0@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:20:17AM +0530, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 6:36 AM, Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl> wrote:
> > Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org> writes:
> >
> >> usr/include/linux/if_frad.h is covered with CONFIG_DLCI from many years
> >> and no body is complaining about it so it means no body is using it.
> >>
> >> So should we need to drop #if / #endif pair or the whole file from
> >> userspace.
> >
> > I think the file. "Empty file exported to userspace", long unused. We
> > can also have it back there, and it being not exported is an indicator
> > that it's not used. I guess the #ifdef __KERNEL__ can be removed, too.
>
> I will definately define #ifdef __KERNEL__ but I am also curious after
> defining it there is no point of making empty
> usr/include/linux/if_frad.h
Googling a bit did not turn up _any_ non-kernel hits that has relevance.
So based on the information given in this thread I strongly
suggest to drop the export of this header.
Sam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-21 5:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-20 14:52 why usr/include/linux/if_frad.h is required Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-01-20 14:54 ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-01-20 17:47 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-01-20 19:53 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-01-20 23:48 ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-01-21 1:06 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-01-21 4:50 ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-01-21 5:33 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2009-01-21 6:15 ` David Miller
2009-01-21 6:38 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-01-21 23:37 ` David Miller
2009-01-22 5:37 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-01-24 13:25 ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-01-24 15:32 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-01-26 20:30 ` David Miller
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