Re: [RFC] Splitting kernel headers and deprecating __KERNEL__

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Mariusz Mazur wrote:
>
> Facts:
> - current __KERNEL__ stuff is crap;

Fact: you're wrong. I _constantly_ get emails when something breaks. It 
doesn't happen all that often, but it happens.

IOW, I _know_ from personal experience that people depend on it. No ifs, 
buts and maybes about it.

> People in this thread are trying to force you to agree to a specific location 
> where stuff like the above mentioned mtd can go to and to start accepting 
> patches (afaik there were a number of patches trying to introduce that 
> userland dir - all of them ignored). That's (mostly) all.

No. People in this thread have almost uniformly ignored my arguments.

If it's MTD-specific, nobody _cares_ where it goes. Somebody take a 
fricking flying leap of faith here.

If that's all that people want, I hereby proclaim that

	include/asm-xxx/user/xxxx.h
	include/user/xxxx.h

is reserved for user-visible stuff. And now you can send me small and 
localized patches that fix a _particular_ gripe. 

But claiming that __KERNEL__ doesn't work is clearly a bunch of crapola. 
As is the notion that you can somehow do it all. We do it in small pieces.

Happy now?

			Linus
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