Re: [RFC] Splitting kernel headers and deprecating __KERNEL__
From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue Nov 30 2004 - 15:54:52 EST
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Mariusz Mazur wrote:
>
> Facts:
> - current __KERNEL__ stuff is crap;
Fact: you're wrong. I _constantly_ get emails when something breaks. It
doesn't happen all that often, but it happens.
IOW, I _know_ from personal experience that people depend on it. No ifs,
buts and maybes about it.
> People in this thread are trying to force you to agree to a specific location
> where stuff like the above mentioned mtd can go to and to start accepting
> patches (afaik there were a number of patches trying to introduce that
> userland dir - all of them ignored). That's (mostly) all.
No. People in this thread have almost uniformly ignored my arguments.
If it's MTD-specific, nobody _cares_ where it goes. Somebody take a
fricking flying leap of faith here.
If that's all that people want, I hereby proclaim that
include/asm-xxx/user/xxxx.h
include/user/xxxx.h
is reserved for user-visible stuff. And now you can send me small and
localized patches that fix a _particular_ gripe.
But claiming that __KERNEL__ doesn't work is clearly a bunch of crapola.
As is the notion that you can somehow do it all. We do it in small pieces.
Happy now?
Linus
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