From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Woodhouse Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 21:35:56 +0000 Subject: Re: + git-hdrcleanup-vs-git-klibc-on-ia64.patch added to -mm tree Message-Id: <1147642556.2729.6.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> List-Id: References: <1147632661.2551.5.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <1147632661.2551.5.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.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