Re: asm/segment.h?

[Zachary Amsden]

Kumar Gala wrote:

> Looking at some architectures it appears that asm/uaccess.h should be  
> used instead of asm/segment.h.  Is this generally true that code in  
> segment.h should be moved into uaccess.h or is it still valid for an  
> architecture to have segment.h?


At least in i386, segment.h can be included by userspace programs, and 
although it really is the user include maintainers that should sort that 
out, moving segment.h into uaccess.h makes that job more tedious.

It looks like the proper thing to do for ppc is to deprecate segment.h 
entirely.

Zach
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