From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnd Bergmann Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/13] UAPI header file split Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 15:50:43 +0000 Message-ID: <201207231550.43775.arnd@arndb.de> References: <20120720215636.14854.41208.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.171]:51406 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753296Ab2GWPuy (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jul 2012 11:50:54 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20120720215636.14854.41208.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: David Howells Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@kernel.org, davej@redhat.com On Friday 20 July 2012, David Howells wrote: > (a) It reduces the size of the kernel-only headers and obviates the need > for __KERNEL__ conditionals in the remnant kernel-only headers. > > (b) In what we have today, there are complex interdependencies between > headers that are partly exported to user space, and we want to reduce > those interdependencies. > > It simplifies the problem space by splitting out the user headers as > they then only depend only on other user headers. > > This step makes it easier to follow through with the remaining steps as > the remnant kernel headers can be split up without regard as to whether > the UAPI will be broken. Header files such as linux/sched.h can even > disappear entirely if that seems convenient. > > There is another potential benefit as well: it becomes easier to track > when the UAPI changes just from the filenames in the GIT log. > > Further, linux-api@vger.kernel.org can be put into the MAINTAINERS file > for the uapi/ directories so that patches changing them get sent to that > list by everyone using get_maintainer.pl. Looks all good to me. For the entire series: Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann