Re: [2.6 patch] chsc headers userspace cleanup

From: Cornelia Huck
Date: Tue Jul 15 2008 - 13:18:19 EST

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On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:58:18 +0300,
Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Kernel headers shouldn't expose functions to userspace.

Could you please elaborate? Especially as I see e.g.
include/linux/virtio_ring.h exporting functions outside #ifdef
__KERNEL__ as well...
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