Re: [PATCH] ethtool.h should use userspace-accessible types

[Jonathan Lundell]

At 10:06 AM -0700 3/12/04, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> My intent was to say:  Why change the types when there is no #ifdef
> __KERNEL__ in the header.  With no #ifdef __KERNEL__ it exports
> definitions that are private to the kernel making it not safe for
> userspace to use.  With kernel private definitions in there it will
> generate name space pollution if included by user space.

Presumably because it *is* included by userspace, because it defines 
the interface between the kernel and userspace; of course userspace 
will (does) include it.

--
/Jonathan Lundell.
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