Re: useless asm/page.h exported to userspace for some architectures

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu Jan 04 2007 - 12:42:44 EST


On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 02:00:20AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> most architectures (pretty much everyone but like x86/x86_64/s390)
> export empty asm/page.h headers ... considering how useless these are,
> why bother exporting them at all ? clearly userspace is unable to
> rely on it across architectures, so by making it available to the two
> most common (x86/x86_64), applications crop up that build "fine" on
> them but fail just about everywhere else

It should not be exported to userspace at all. Care to submit a patch?

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