Re: [PATCH] Drop an empty byteorder/generic.h from being exportedto userspace.

[Jiri Slaby]

On 04/02/2008 01:00 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, Jiri Slaby wrote:
>
> > On 04/02/2008 03:38 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > > Since the entire meaningful contents of generic.h is wrapped by the
> > > __KERNEL__ test, drop it from being passed to userspace, and remove
> > > the now superfluous __KERNEL__ test.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > ---
> > >
> > >   is there some value in allowing an effectively empty header file to
> > > be exported to userspace?
> > Not breaking the userspace? The file is included in non-__KERNEL__
> > sections from byteorder/*_endian.h.
>
> ok ... and the value of including a completely empty header file is
> ... ?

No value, you should just move those includes into the __KERNEL__ part.
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