Re: Kernel header policy

[Eric Piel]

12.07.2005 20:38, Jim Nance wrote/a écrit:
> Perhaps a little history would help.  In the beginning, the kernel was
> written with the intention that userland would be including the headers.
> And libc did include the kernel headers.
>
> This did provide an effective way to get new kernel features to show
> up in userland, but it created all sorts of other problems.  Eventually
> it was decided/decreed that userland would NOT include kernel headers.
> Instead, libc would provide a set of headers which would either be
> compatable, or would marshel data into the form the kernel wanted.
>  

So does this mean that all the "#ifdef __KERNEL__" are useless or are 
they still used?

Eric
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