Re: Inconsistent "#ifdef __KERNEL__" on different architectures

From: Adrian Bunk (bunk@fs.tum.de)
Date: Tue Jun 05 2001 - 04:33:19 EST


On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Paul Mackerras wrote:

>...
> This is why I added #ifdef __KERNEL__ around most of the contents
> of include/asm-ppc/*.h. It was done deliberately to flush out those
> programs which are depending on kernel headers when they shouldn't.

Whatever the right policy is, the main concern in my initial mail was the
_consistency_ of the kernel headers between different architectures.
So when you want to flush out these programs I see no reason to
inconsistetly change it only on one architecture.

> Paul.

cu
Adrian

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