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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: + git-hdrcleanup-vs-git-klibc-on-ia64.patch added to -mm tree
Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 21:35:56 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1147642556.2729.6.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1147632661.2551.5.camel@shinybook.infradead.org>

On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 22:15 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Using byte swizzling instrincts I supposed.  On the other hand asm/byteorder.h
> really shouldn't be user-exposed to start with. 

A whole bunch of things include byteorder.h 

On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 22:17 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> elf.h shouldn't be exported to userspace at all.  there's a separate incarnation
> of elf.h in userland, so anyone importing the kernel one is plain stupid.
> 
> similarly no one should be using page.h, there is nothing in there userspace
> should ever look at

ucontext.h includes elf.h for elf_gregset_t. 
elf.h includes page.h (probably for PAGE_SIZE).

Yes, they do want cleaning up -- but I want the first set of stuff in
the hdrcleanup git tree to be _entirely_ simple and uncontentious. We
can get on to the more interesting stuff later.

-- 
dwmw2


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-05-14 21:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-14 18:51 + git-hdrcleanup-vs-git-klibc-on-ia64.patch added to -mm tree David Woodhouse
2006-05-14 21:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-05-14 21:35 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2006-05-14 22:02 ` H. Peter Anvin

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