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Date:      Thu, 16 Oct 1997 09:21:46 +1000 (EST)
From:      Darren Reed <darrenr@cyber.com.au>
To:        julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Freebsd 3.0 current fails ipfilter 3.2b8 build (fwd)
Message-ID:  <199710152321.JAA09731@plum.cyber.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <3444E7A2.41C67EA6@whistle.com> from "Julian Elischer" at Oct 15, 97 08:56:18 am

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In some mail I received from Julian Elischer, sie wrote
> 
> All the "_var.h" files contain variables who'se scope is within the
> kernel only.

Yup, I think that's a reasonable approach to take.

I don't think it should extend, however, to structure definitions.

> The only exception is LKMs which should define KERNEL.
> I don't know who did this, (I see in the logs it was garrett)
> but the idea is simply to make it more obvios when you are
> doing the WRONG thing
> and including kernel private variables (that are subject to change, 
> and not part of the API) .

There is an API ?

Darren



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