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Re: #ifdef __KERNEL__ in asm-sparc/atomic.h



On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 09:28:05PM +1100, Jim Watson wrote:
> Hi,
> in debian linux sparc
> 
> in /usr/include/asm-sparc/atomic.h this line prevents being used:
> 
> #ifdef __KERNEL__
> 
> No such line exists in asm-sparc64/atomic.h
> 
> >From google search i see this discussed a couple of years ago in different
> conteaxts, kernel headers should not be used by users, but this is not a
> kernel header?
> 
> I would appreciate some comment, i could file a bug, but is this is a bug?

The short answer is that you are not supposed to use kernel headers for
userspace.

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