From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: untangle the mess Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2017 21:00:57 +0200 Message-ID: <20170603190102.28866-1-hch@lst.de> Return-path: Sender: linux-ia64-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Arnd Bergmann , Thomas Gleixner , "David S. Miller" , Tony Luck , Fenghua Yu Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-arch.vger.kernel.org We currently have uapi versions of which at least on a few architectures define bits of the userspace ABI before including an uapi asm-generic version, and also non-uapi versions which do almost nothing except for making sure other headers include the right uapi one before including an asm-generic that defined two prototypes and a few defines that aren't architecture specific in any. This series completely gets rid of the non-uapi versions and cleans up various small bits on the way. Note that Thomas has some posix-timers work overlapping with this, so it might make sense to take these through the tip tree. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([65.50.211.133]:33518 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750991AbdFCTBM (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Jun 2017 15:01:12 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: untangle the mess Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2017 21:00:57 +0200 Message-ID: <20170603190102.28866-1-hch@lst.de> Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Arnd Bergmann , Thomas Gleixner , "David S. Miller" , Tony Luck , Fenghua Yu Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20170603190057.0yvTny_svjzkE3Yob7nAvPTBKiuDatU0SYSkewCRA3U@z> We currently have uapi versions of which at least on a few architectures define bits of the userspace ABI before including an uapi asm-generic version, and also non-uapi versions which do almost nothing except for making sure other headers include the right uapi one before including an asm-generic that defined two prototypes and a few defines that aren't architecture specific in any. This series completely gets rid of the non-uapi versions and cleans up various small bits on the way. Note that Thomas has some posix-timers work overlapping with this, so it might make sense to take these through the tip tree.