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From: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Subject: Re: Continuing the UAPI split
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2019 13:05:16 +0100
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To: Elichai Turkel <elichai.turkel@gmail.com>, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, libc-alpha <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
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[+Cc Florian, glibc]

On November 7, 2019 12:17:50 PM GMT+01:00, Elichai Turkel <elichai=2Eturke=
l@gmail=2Ecom> wrote:
>Hi,
>I'm working on a library that calls syscalls directly to the kernel=2E
>`make hedears_install` is a great command to auto generate the UAPI
>headers that are needed to call the kernel=2E
>
>But the headers are still missing a bunch of defines for flags and
>structs=2E
>
>I wanted to know if patches to move more things from `=2E/include/linux`
>to `=2E/include/uapi/linux` are welcome (obviously only
>typedefs/defines/structs that are required for the syscalls)
>
>I think the UAPI is really close to getting a complete set of things
>needed to communicate with the syscalls, but still not quite there=2E I
>would like to push patches whenever I see missing things that my
>library needs (that way it will be incrementally and by usage only)=2E
>
>Would love to get feedback=2E
>Thanks,
>Elichai=2E