perhaps then, someone should go about putting together a perl script to
extract useful definitions from the kernel and put them in a "public" set
of headers. This satisfies Linus' problem (stifling kernel changes), and
the problem of others (slow migration of constants to copies/packages).
The extracted headers could then be published as a separate set of headers
that would go with each kernel. They would probably (hopefully) not change
all that often. This would change the current state of duplication into
replication.
NOTE: The separate headers should _not_ be part of the kernel distribution!
and they should probably be minimalist (i.e. put something in if it is _used_
but only then)
-gordo
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