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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] usb-linux.c: #define __user to work around broken Linux headers
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:49:14 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48B70F4A.5030802@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080828204114.GD3229@networkno.de>

Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>   
> It was rejected because distros should fix their broken headers instead.
>   

In all fairness the headers in /usr/include/linux are not meant for 
application consumption.  The are for private use by glibc.  
Applications are suppose to copy and fixup Linux headers into their 
local trees.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Thiemo
>   

  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-28 20:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-28 16:24 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] usb-linux.c: #define __user to work around broken Linux headers Ian Jackson
2008-08-28 20:06 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-08-28 20:41   ` Thiemo Seufer
2008-08-28 20:49     ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2008-08-29  9:47     ` Ian Jackson
2008-09-07  2:50       ` Anthony Liguori

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