[2.24 PATCH 2/3] Minimize sysdeps code involved in defining major/minor/makedev.

[Zack Weinberg]

On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 4:55 PM, Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> wrote:
> (3) New symbols?
>
> Overall this looks good. I have only questions about why the new functions
> are going into the users namespace. Traditionally we put things into the
> implementation namespace, particularly to discourage users calling the
> functions directly. I would like the user to use the normal interfaces for
> calling this functionality.

I would agree if these were truly new functions, but they're not. They
already exist, with the user-namespace names, in every Linux-based
port.  `grep gnu_dev_ $(find sysdeps -name libc*.abilist)` and see for
yourself.