Josh Triplett [off-list ref] wrote:

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Sure. And 0 is perfectly fine value for the flag. Like with MAP_FILE.

Rephrasing: the flag should always exist with the correct value.
Whether the kernel handles it or not, the kernel *headers* shouldn't
change to match the kernel, not least of which because they don't
necessarily match the running kernel.  Just like we define the
prototypes for syscalls that the running kernel may return ENOSYS for.

Josh is correct.

CONFIG_xxx *should* *not* be seen in UAPI headers, except inside #ifdef
__KERNEL__ guards under special circumstances - and #ifdef __KERNEL__ guards
*should* *not* be seen in UAPI headers except under special circumstances.

In terms of such special circumstances, take a peek in
include/uapi/linux/acct.h at struct acct with this:

	/* m68k had no padding here. */
	#if !defined(CONFIG_M68K) || !defined(__KERNEL__)
		__u16		ac_ahz;			/* AHZ */
	#endif

in the middle of it...

Or include/{,uapi/}linux/agpgart.h where it defines two different but
same-named variants of several structs.

Now, some of these - particularly things like the latter - can be fixed by
someone who has the time.

David