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From: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cross-architecture ELF clean up
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:37:03 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706251531110.4386@scrub.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070620230902.387008536@goop.org>

Hi,

On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:

> This patch cleans up the ELF headers and their users.  It does several
> related things:
> 
> 1. split linux/elf.h into pieces
> 
> This splits linux/elf.h into several pieces:
> 	linux/elf.h		- still the common elf header,
> 				  functionally unchanged
> 	linux/elf-const.h	- ELF constants, includable by asm code

We have the __ASSEMBLY__ define for this, so just for asm code we don't 
need a separate header.

> 	linux/elf-decl.h	- ELF type declarations, without definitions
> 	linux/elf-defn.h	- ELF type definitions

What's the point in splitting these two?

After this patch <linux/elf.h> seems to be pretty much empty, I'd rather 
suggest to move the function declarations to elfcore.h and leave the basic 
elf definitions in elf.h. Many small header files have the disadvantage 
that it takes longer to find the needed information.

bye, Roman

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-06-25 13:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20070620230854.246399397@goop.org>
2007-06-20 23:08 ` [PATCH] cross-architecture ELF clean up Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-21  8:20   ` ian
2007-06-21 15:06     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-21 16:49   ` Chris Zankel
2007-06-21 18:31     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-25  9:02   ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-25 12:43     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-25 13:40     ` Roman Zippel
2007-06-25 13:56       ` Clemens Koller
2007-06-25 14:06         ` Roman Zippel
2007-06-25 13:37   ` Roman Zippel [this message]
2007-06-26 19:29     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-27 23:25       ` Roman Zippel
2007-06-28 15:45         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-28 21:48           ` Roman Zippel
2007-06-29 14:53             ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-29 18:12               ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-07-01 16:23                 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-25 15:18   ` Roman Zippel
2007-06-26 19:28     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-29  4:13   ` Paul Mackerras
2007-06-29  5:31     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-29  4:48   ` Paul Mackerras
2007-06-29  5:31     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge

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