Re: [PATCH 00/15] Remove asm/segment.h from low hanging architectures

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 02:24:56AM -0700, Zachary Amsden wrote:
> Yes, agree totally,  i386 _requires_ asm/segment.h.  It is used in 
> low-level trap handling and bootup code from assembly files.  In 
> addition,

but keeping the header under that name will just encorage people
to put it back into drivers, after all it compiles on i386..

Let's rename it even for i386.

>even parts of userspace on i386 depend on asm/segment.h, 
> although that is a different beast.

That's a problem of glibc-kernheaders (or insert alternative $name here)

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