On Fri 10 Mar 2006 at 10:52:27 -0800, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> Because some of these headers are shared between kernel and user
> source.  The macro provides a way to "hide" kernel private details,
> without having to create two versions of header files.

Perhaps the includes, as installed in /usr/include, should be run
through `unifdef -U_KERNEL -U_STANDALONE' or somesuch.

-Olaf.
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