Re: 2.6.6-rc3: modular DVB tda1004x broken

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Sat May 01 2004 - 19:05:21 EST


Chris Wedgwood <cw@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 04:55:30PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> > Yes. Except we should probably only do this for __KERNEL_SYSCALLS__,
> > since it's possible that somebody is still using this in user space
> > (it pre-glibc people).
>
> I'm confused.
>
> I thought it has been decreed using kernel headers in userspace was a
> bad idea (DONT DO THAT) so in theory we can just ignore this issue?
>

I prefer not to break stuff which people are currently using, particularly
when avoiding the breakage is a simple thing.
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