From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 22:03:46 +0000 Subject: Re: + git-hdrcleanup-vs-git-klibc-on-ia64-2.patch added to -mm tree Message-Id: <4467A942.1000206@zytor.com> List-Id: References: <1147633985.2551.14.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <1147633985.2551.14.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 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 08:13:05PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: >> In the long term I think we want to drop page.h and elf.h from the list >> of files which are exported to userspace altogether. > > 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. > Keep in mind that userland isn't necessarily glibc. In particular, for klibc it would be a pain in the arse to have two largely identical copies of the same header file in the kernel tree. Data duplication is NOT a good thing. -hpa