On [Tue, 30.10.2007 08:47], David Woodhouse wrote:
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> On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 13:02 +0200, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > This series of patches unexport several unneeded(I guess) headers from=
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> > userspace. Patches based on patch posted to linux-kernel@ by Mike Frysi=
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> > in July.
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> Looks OK to me, in general. How much userspace have you tested building
> with this? Does it include stuff like gdb?

I have rebuilt gdb-6.6 on x86_64. Ok.

Also, it fix building directfb on ARM. ;)
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> Not that I necessarily care about the answer in the normal way -- it's
> just that if userspace will need to adapt, I'd like to get them moving
> ASAP. One option for easing that might be to export stuff like page.h
> but _empty_.

It's bad idea. Taken from directfb:

#if HAVE_ASM_PAGE_H
#include <asm/page.h>
#else
#define PAGE_SIZE   sysconf( _SC_PAGESIZE )
#endif

Other application can use something like this. I think we should drop
empty headers.

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