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Re: [RFC] Splitting kernel headers and deprecating __KERNEL__
- From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead dot org>
- To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew at wil dot cx>
- Cc: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>, dhowells <dhowells at redhat dot com>, torvalds at osdl dot org, hch at infradead dot org, linux-kernel at vger dot kernel dot org, libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 22:35:02 +0000
- Subject: Re: [RFC] Splitting kernel headers and deprecating __KERNEL__
- References: <19865.1101395592@redhat.com> <orvfbtzt7t.fsf@livre.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br> <20041125210137.GD2849@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 21:01 +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> I'm not particularly stuck on the <user/> namespace. We could invent
> a better name. How about <kern/> and <arch/> to replace <linux/>
> and <asm/>? Obviously keeping linux/ and asm/ symlinks for backwards
> compatibility.
There's no _real_ need to keep them. All we need to fix is a handful of
libc implementations; anything else using them was broken anyway.
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dwmw2