From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, klibc@zytor.com
Subject: Re: [klibc] [patch] import socket defines
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:42:28 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47871DE4.40906@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4787164F.9030805@zytor.com>
H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> Right now, glibc is special-cased. glibc also tends to be very
> deliberate about its kernel header inclusions. It wants a subset of the
> available defines, so it can include a subset header.
>
> The reverse is definitely possible too -- all other users (kernel,
> newlib, dietlibc, uclibc, and klibc) can change and leave the current
> state for glibc.
>
> We can special-case the kernel in the above case, but that would involve
> some additional ugliness.
>
Just to clarify: I don't have any strong opinions for any particular
option -- I'm fine with either. I'd just like to get rid of the
ugliness of having #defines for any particular user spaces, and I'd
prefer two include files over feature test macros.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-11 7:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200801012029.21432.vapier@gentoo.org>
[not found] ` <477AF86E.1080309@zytor.com>
[not found] ` <200801020830.43449.vapier@gentoo.org>
2008-01-02 18:09 ` [klibc] [patch] import socket defines H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-11 6:16 ` David Miller
2008-01-11 6:23 ` Mike Frysinger
2008-01-11 6:41 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-11 6:47 ` David Miller
2008-01-11 7:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-11 7:07 ` Mike Frysinger
2008-01-11 7:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-11 7:42 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-01-11 7:57 ` Mike Frysinger
2008-01-11 8:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-11 9:02 ` Mike Frysinger
2008-01-11 9:28 ` Mike Frysinger
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