Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 14 Jul 2006 13:19:57 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: 2.6.18 Headers - Long | From | David Miller <> |
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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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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