Re: [PATCH] uapi/linux/a.out.h: don't use deprecated system-specific predefines.

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Fri Jun 02 2017 - 15:12:59 EST


On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 5:06 AM, Zack Weinberg <zackw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 06/02/2017 03:10 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>
>> Can we please fix these conditionals so that only those
>> relevant to Linux remain?
>
> I was going for the minimal change since this is dusty-deck code that I
> can't practically test, but I have no objection to your more thorough
> approach. I don't see anything I would do differently.

Yes, I think I'd just prefer to rip out the stale stuff, and remove
the "#ifdef linux" entirely.

It's not like the kernel wants non-linux headers, and I don't see
non-linux users using the kernel headers either.

Linus