Re: [PATCH][RFC] Delete export of tty.h to userspace.

From: Robert P. J. Day
Date: Thu Jul 19 2007 - 11:29:31 EST


On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 07:17:07AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > so you're saying you'll drop that include from util-linux, is that
> > it? but it's still a good plan to generate a warning whenever
> > userspace includes that file, so i'll submit a quick patch to
> > generate that, based on jiri's suggestion.
>
> Not exporting it at all gives an error which is a lot better. Just
> look at all the warnings most userspace spews, they'd never even
> notice it otherwise.

i'm fine either way, i just didn't want to gratuitously break
userspace. someone higher up the food chain is welcome to make the
decision here.

rday
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