From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932469AbWD0LEH (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Apr 2006 07:04:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932470AbWD0LEH (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Apr 2006 07:04:07 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.171]:50656 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932469AbWD0LEG (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Apr 2006 07:04:06 -0400 From: Arnd Bergmann To: Krzysztof Halasa Subject: Re: Simple header cleanups Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 13:03:52 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: Denis Vlasenko , Linus Torvalds , David Woodhouse , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1146104023.2885.15.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> <200604271010.06711.vda@ilport.com.ua> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200604271303.52617.arnd@arndb.de> X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:c48f057754fc1b1a557605ab9fa6da41 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 <><