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SubjectRe: 2.6.18 Headers - Long
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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 21:16:42 +0100

> More to the point, now we're doing this from upstream we can be
> _consistent_ about telling them to sod off and fix their broken crap.
>
> We no longer have to deal with cries of 'but it works on $SOMEDISTRO'
> when another distro tries to impose some sanity rather than just
> pandering to it.
>
> Kernel headers are _not_ a library of random crap for userspace to use.

I totally agree. When I saw that some dists make asm/page.h define
PAGE_SIZE to "getpagesize()" for userspace, I nearly crapped myself.

That is insane, and encourages the problem to persist instead of
encouraging the right fix.
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