Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com> writes:
> > I think the idea with <asm/bitops.h> is that they are protected by
> > #ifdef __KERNEL__ if they are kernel-only; however, if they work in
> > user space then there is no #ifdef and autoconf can detect their
> > presence.
>
> Any amount of sharing between userspace and kernel -adds- constraints to
> kernel code, and leads to namespace pollution on both ends by careless
> (or busy!) developers.
>
> Let's remove restrictions and constraints from kernel code, not add to
> them...
Sounds reasonable. Do you think you can get them to remove
/usr/include/linux, and, /usr/include/asm in the next release of Mandrake?
Eric
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