From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Cc: Denis Vlasenko <vda@ilport.com.ua>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Simple header cleanups
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 13:03:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200604271303.52617.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3fyjze72x.fsf@defiant.localdomain>
On Thursday 27 April 2006 10:49, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> We _do_ have a stable userspace ABI and API, and contrary to the popular
> belief the header set would be quite small (probably an order of magnitude
> smaller than the "sanitized headers" package). What we need to export is
> the actual API (including things like ioctl, netlink, SG_IO etc), most
> things should be kept private to the kernel (and never copied anywhere
> etc).
Yes, that is also what the 'make headers_install' target in David's tree
does (not the one proposed for inclusion here). It installs only headers
that are meaningful to glibc and the few other traditional users and strips
out the parts that are not inside __KERNEL__.
Arnd <><
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-27 11:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-27 2:13 Simple header cleanups David Woodhouse
2006-04-27 2:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-04-27 2:27 ` Gerrit Huizenga
2006-04-27 2:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-04-27 3:00 ` David Woodhouse
2006-04-27 4:32 ` Gerrit Huizenga
2006-04-27 2:37 ` David Woodhouse
2006-04-27 2:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-04-27 3:17 ` David Woodhouse
2006-04-27 3:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-04-27 3:41 ` David Woodhouse
2006-04-27 7:10 ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-04-27 7:23 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-04-27 8:49 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2006-04-27 11:03 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2006-04-27 21:37 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-04-27 22:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-04-27 23:11 ` David Woodhouse
2006-04-27 23:12 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-04-28 0:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-04-28 0:55 ` David Woodhouse
2006-04-28 15:32 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-04-28 15:37 ` David Woodhouse
2006-04-28 15:59 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-04-28 16:01 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-04-29 10:33 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2006-05-03 2:53 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-04-30 9:38 ` Peter Chubb
2006-04-30 9:59 ` David Woodhouse
2006-04-30 21:48 ` Peter Chubb
2006-04-27 15:05 ` David Woodhouse
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