Re: headers

[Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>]

On Monday 18 August 2003 21:45, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Followup to:  <UTC200308181907.h7IJ7im12407.aeb@smtp.cwi.nl>
> By author:    Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> >     From garzik@gtf.org  Mon Aug 18 20:14:47 2003
> >
> >     I support include/abi, or some other directory that segregates
> >     user<->kernel shared headers away from kernel-private headers.
> >
> >     I don't see how that would be auto-generated, though.  Only created
> >     through lots of hard work :)
> >
> > Yes, unfortunately. I started doing some of this a few times,
> > but it is an order of magnitude more work than one thinks at first.
> > Already the number of include files is very large.
> > And the fact that it is not just include/abi but involves the
> > architecture doesn't make life simpler.
> >
> > No doubt we must first discuss a little bit, but not too much,
> > the desired directory structure and naming.
> > Then we must do 5% of the work, and come back to these issues.
> >
> > In case people actually want to do this, I can coordinate.
> >
> > In case people want to try just one file, do signal.h.
>
> Oh yes, this is a whole lot of work.

But is it 2.6 work, or 2.8 work?

Rob