Re: [RFC] Splitting kernel headers and deprecating __KERNEL__

[Andreas Steinmetz <ast@domdv.de>]

Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 03:13:12PM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> 
>>We've been discussing splitting the kernel headers into userspace API headers
>>and kernel internal headers and deprecating the __KERNEL__ macro. This will
>>permit a cleaner interface between the kernel and userspace; and one that's
>>easier to keep up to date.
>>
>>What we've come up with is this:
>>
>> (1) Create new directories in the linux sources to shadow existing include
>>     directories:
>>
>>	NEW DIRECTORY		DIRECTORY SHADOWED
>>	=============		==================
>>	include/user/		include/linux/
>>	include/user-*/		include/asm-*/
>>
>>     Note that this doesn't take account of the other directories under
>>     include/, but I don't think they're relevant.
> 
> 
> If we go for some resturcturing of include/ then we should get rid of
> the annoying asm symlink. Following layout deals with that:
> 
> include/<arch>/asm		<= Files from include/asm-<arch>
> include/<arch>/mach*		<= Files from include/mach-*
> 
> This layout solve the symlink issue in an elegant way.
> We need to do trivial changes to compiler options to make it work. Changing
> compiler options is much more relaible than using symlinks.
> 
> Then the userspace part would then be located in:
> include/<arch>/user-asm
> 

This complicates things for bi-arch architectures like x86_64 where one 
can use a dispatcher directory instead of a symlink to suit include/asm 
for 32bit as well as 64bit.

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