On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Karel Zak wrote: > On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 04:33:12PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Jiri Slaby wrote: > > > > > Robert P. J. Day napsal(a): > > > > given that the entire contents of include/linux/tty.h is contained > > > > within an "#ifdef __KERNEL__", it seems pointless to export it to > > > > userspace, unless there's some kind of need for that header file to > > > > exist in userspace, even if it's empty. > > > > > > > > a quick grep shows that nothing under /usr/include references any > > > > file of the name "tty.h" in any way. thoughts? > > > > > > If we decide to remove the file, I would rather go through > > > deprecation of the file with filing an entry in > > > feature-remove-schedule. There still seems to be some users of the > > > file. > > > > i'm curious -- how did you determine that? > > $ grep "tty.h" util-linux/sys-utils/cytune.c > #include <linux/tty.h> > > ... I'll fix it in util-linux-ng.
so you're saying you'll drop that include from util-linux, is that it? but it's still a good plan to generate a warning whenever userspace includes that file, so i'll submit a quick patch to generate that, based on jiri's suggestion. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ======================================================================== - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
