From: "Ihar 'Philips' Filipau" <filia@softhome.net>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: [PATCH] scsi.h uses "u8" which isn't defined.
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 20:54:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F4120DD.3030108@softhome.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <lWLZ.39x.29@gated-at.bofh.it>
Jeff Garzik wrote:
>>hpa IIRC suggested to create a separate directory:
>>include/abi
>>and then all relevant parts of the kernel should publish their public
>>interface in the abi directory. Would that be usefull?
>
>
> 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 :)
>
There is no need to be a prophet to predict linux/abi being 99%
symlinks right into include/{asm,linux}.
So it is can turn out to be the same ;-)
It just adds job for mantainers.
(To keep symlinks in correct order ;-)))))
But generally idea is good: keep interface separately from
implementation.
next parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-18 18:54 UTC|newest]
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2003-08-18 18:54 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau [this message]
2003-08-18 19:04 ` [PATCH] Re: [PATCH] scsi.h uses "u8" which isn't defined Jeff Garzik
2003-08-19 12:32 ` Rob Landley
2003-08-19 17:26 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-19 21:38 ` Will uclibc be supported in 2.6? (was Re: [PATCH] Re: [PATCH] scsi.h uses "u8" which isn't defined.) Rob Landley
2003-08-19 21:47 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-20 1:42 ` [PATCH] Re: [PATCH] scsi.h uses "u8" which isn't defined Erik Andersen
2003-08-20 23:48 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-08-21 0:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-22 0:32 ` Rob Landley
2003-08-22 0:50 ` Chris Friesen
2003-08-22 1:58 ` Rob Landley
2003-08-22 0:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-18 20:40 ` Sam Ravnborg
2003-08-18 12:36 Andries.Brouwer
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-08-18 12:19 Andries.Brouwer
2003-08-18 12:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-08-18 18:08 ` Sam Ravnborg
2003-08-18 18:14 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-18 15:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-08-18 15:32 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-18 16:13 ` Patrick Mansfield
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