Re: [PATCH] ppc32: removed usage of <asm/segment.h>

[Miklos Szeredi]

> On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 12:43:37AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> > >I concur, in fact we should really kill that thing off entirely.
> > 
> > I'm all for killing it off entirely but got some feedback that on  
> > i386 segment.h can be included by userspace programs.
> 
> No kernel headers can be included by userland anymore.

I know nothing about <asm/segment.h> but this generic statement is
simply not true.

There are perfectly valid uses of kernel headers from userspace.  For
example if a program uses the netlink interface, it should include
<linux/netlink.h>.  It's the interface definition after all.

Glibc headers also include <linux/*> and <asm/*> in quite few places.

Miklos
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