From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] linuxabi
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 19:32:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031003173251.GA2097@mars.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m17k3nhfex.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 08:39:50AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> So all of the definitions exported
> through linuxabi need to be in a linux centric namespace.
What we try to achieve is to use the same headerfiles for user,
and kernel. Previously this has been done by including selected
files direct from include/linux/*.
A few cases that I recall is DVB, scsi, and ipv6.
For all of these there were no need to create a specific linux namespace.
If there is parts of the kernel that _really_ require a separate
linux namespace then we need to find a solution for that part.
But we should not try to uglify the interface becasue a limited
part of the kernel interface have specific needs.
And since dvb, scsi and ipv6 could accept current namespace before,
they should also be able to accept it today - no?
The concept introduced by inventing abi/ is to make it visible
what part of the kernel interface is actually visible from user level.
And also a good way for us to make sure no kernel specific types sneaks in.
Sam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-03 17:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-01 0:01 [PATCH] linuxabi Andries.Brouwer
2003-10-01 2:05 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2003-10-01 3:34 ` viro
2003-10-01 4:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-10-01 5:22 ` Philippe Troin
2003-10-01 5:50 ` Miles Bader
2003-10-01 14:33 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-10-01 10:20 ` J.A. Magallon
2003-10-02 14:39 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-10-02 15:33 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-10-03 7:36 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-10-04 3:37 ` Rob Landley
2003-10-04 6:31 ` Erik Andersen
[not found] ` <fa.e2g5r6g.u3igb4@ifi.uio.no>
2003-10-03 16:49 ` Kai Henningsen
2003-10-03 17:32 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
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[not found] ` <CcWl.7kh.9@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <CdIL.8ts.13@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-10-03 14:02 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
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