From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: + git-hdrcleanup-vs-git-klibc-on-ia64-2.patch added to -mm tree
Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 22:05:07 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4467A993.1000000@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1147633985.2551.14.camel@shinybook.infradead.org>
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 08:13:05PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
>> In the long term I think we want to drop page.h and elf.h from the list
>> of files which are exported to userspace altogether.
>
> elf.h shouldn't be exported to userspace at all. there's a separate incarnation
> of elf.h in userland, so anyone importing the kernel one is plain stupid.
>
Keep in mind that userland isn't necessarily glibc. In particular, for
klibc it would be a pain in the arse to have two largely identical
copies of the same header file in the kernel tree.
Data duplication is NOT a good thing.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-14 22:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-14 19:13 + git-hdrcleanup-vs-git-klibc-on-ia64-2.patch added to -mm tree David Woodhouse
2006-05-14 21:13 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-05-14 21:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-05-14 21:37 ` David Woodhouse
2006-05-14 22:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-05-14 22:05 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2006-05-14 22:11 ` David Woodhouse
2006-05-14 22:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-05-14 22:41 ` David Woodhouse
2006-05-14 23:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-05-14 23:35 ` David Woodhouse
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