Re: [RFC] Splitting kernel headers and deprecating __KERNEL__

[H. Peter Anvin]

Followup to:  <Pine.LNX.4.58.0411291458040.22796@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
By author:    Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> If glibc wants to do something new, go wild. The kernel won't care.
> 
> And that's really the fundamental issue. The kernel does not care what
> user land does. The kernel exports functionality, the kernel does _not_
> ask user land to help.
> 
> That _does_ make it a one-way street. Sorry.
> 

And it SHOULD be a one-way street.  A lot of the ugliness in the
current stuff comes from the fact that the kernel tries to export
libc4/5 internals, instead of the real kernel ABI.

	-hpa
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