From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Userland headers available
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 01:38:06 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <busi9u$fd7$1@terminus.zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4011788D.3070606@nortelnetworks.com
Followup to: <4011788D.3070606@nortelnetworks.com>
By author: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Friesen, Christopher [CAR:7Q28:EXCH] wrote:
>
> > The obvious way is to have the kernel headers include the userland
> > headers, then everything below that be wrapped in "#ifdef __KERNEL__".
> > Userland then includes the normal kernel headers, but only gets the
> > userland-safe ones.
>
> I just realized this wasn't clear. I envision a new set of headers in
> the kernel that are clean to export to userland. The current headers
> then include the appropriate userland-clean ones, and everything below
> that is kernel only.
>
> This lets the kernel maintain the userland-clean headers explicitly, and
> we don't have the work of cleaning them up for glibc.
>
We've referred to this for quite a while as the "ABI header project";
it's been targetted for 2.7, since it missed the 2.6 freeze.
We have set up a mailing list at:
http://zytor.com/mailman/listinfo/linuxabi
The goal is to get a formal exportable version of the kernel ABI that
user-space libraries can use.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-24 1:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-23 18:07 Userland headers available Mariusz Mazur
2004-01-23 18:47 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-01-23 19:04 ` Mariusz Mazur
2004-01-23 19:15 ` Chris Friesen
2004-01-23 19:39 ` Chris Friesen
2004-01-23 23:47 ` jw schultz
2004-01-24 1:38 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2004-01-25 23:30 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-01-26 0:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-01-23 20:28 ` Sam Ravnborg
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