From: Eric Piel <Eric.Piel@lifl.fr>
To: Jim Nance <jlnance@sdf.lonestar.org>
Cc: Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel header policy
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 21:08:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42D41545.7040809@lifl.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050712183859.GA21230@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG>
12.07.2005 20:38, Jim Nance wrote/a écrit:
>
>
> Perhaps a little history would help. In the beginning, the kernel was
> written with the intention that userland would be including the headers.
> And libc did include the kernel headers.
>
> This did provide an effective way to get new kernel features to show
> up in userland, but it created all sorts of other problems. Eventually
> it was decided/decreed that userland would NOT include kernel headers.
> Instead, libc would provide a set of headers which would either be
> compatable, or would marshel data into the form the kernel wanted.
>
So does this mean that all the "#ifdef __KERNEL__" are useless or are
they still used?
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-12 19:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-11 21:37 Kernel header policy Marc Aurele La France
2005-07-11 21:56 ` Stephen Frost
2005-07-11 22:44 ` Tomasz Torcz
2005-07-12 2:06 ` Horst von Brand
2005-07-12 13:26 ` Peter Staubach
2005-07-12 13:36 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-07-12 16:30 ` Alistair John Strachan
2005-07-12 18:38 ` Jim Nance
2005-07-12 19:08 ` Eric Piel [this message]
2005-07-12 20:18 ` Tom Rini
2005-07-12 3:07 ` Greg KH
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