Re: headers

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

Followup to:  <UTC200308181907.h7IJ7im12407.aeb@smtp.cwi.nl>
By author:    Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
>     From garzik@gtf.org  Mon Aug 18 20:14:47 2003
> 
>     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 :)
> 
> Yes, unfortunately. I started doing some of this a few times,
> but it is an order of magnitude more work than one thinks at first.
> Already the number of include files is very large.
> And the fact that it is not just include/abi but involves the architecture
> doesn't make life simpler.
> 
> No doubt we must first discuss a little bit, but not too much,
> the desired directory structure and naming.
> Then we must do 5% of the work, and come back to these issues.
> 
> In case people actually want to do this, I can coordinate.
> 
> In case people want to try just one file, do signal.h.
> 

Oh yes, this is a whole lot of work.

	-hpa
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