Bug#242490: linux-kernel-headers: Protect Linux headers from unproper inclussion

[Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>]

On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 12:05:49PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 12:52:48AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > 
> > If we're going to do something after sarge we should gut the headers
> 
> What do you mean by gutting the headers?

Remove everything that should not be exported to userspace.

> > and work with the existing linuxabi project,
> 
> FWICS, this project is for adding binary emulation of other kernels to Linux.
> I don't see the relation.

Wrong linuxabi project.  There are two.

> > not add yet more feature
> > macros.
> 
> I haven't found another way to allow Glibc headers to include Linux headers
> but still prevent userspace apps from including them but the use of macros.
> 
> Is there something I'm overlooking?

They should be cleaned up to be userspace-usable, not wrapped.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer