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Re: [NETLINK]: Schedule removal of old macros exported to userspace
On Sat, 2006-12-09 at 15:58 +0100, Stefan Rompf wrote:
> But when even glibc needs internal compat headers to compile with the second
> kernel version that provides userspace headers, what is the long-term - even
> mid-term - perspective of make headers_install then?
We've only _just_ started paying attention to what we export. I tried to
keep the initial cut of headers_install very simple and uncontentious --
sticking to implementation, and not policy. So I didn't do a
particularly thorough cull of stuff that we shouldn't be exposing --
it's expected that we may lose _some_ more stuff.
But breaking userspace like _this_ isn't acceptable, and we're not doing
it.
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dwmw2