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From: jw schultz <jw@pegasys.ws>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Userland headers available
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 15:47:18 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040123234718.GF16386@pegasys.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4011788D.3070606@nortelnetworks.com>

On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 02:39:57PM -0500, Chris Friesen wrote:
> Friesen, Christopher [CAR:7Q28:EXCH] wrote:
> 
> >The obvious way is to have the kernel headers include the userland
> >headers, then everything below that be wrapped in "#ifdef __KERNEL__". 
> >Userland then includes the normal kernel headers, but only gets the 
> >userland-safe ones.
> 
> I just realized this wasn't clear.  I envision a new set of headers in 
> the kernel that are clean to export to userland.  The current headers 
> then include the appropriate userland-clean ones, and everything below 
> that is kernel only.
> 
> This lets the kernel maintain the userland-clean headers explicitly, and 
> we don't have the work of cleaning them up for glibc.

This gets discussed every few months.  I think the most
recent was in August.

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=linux-kernel+include/abi&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=lXHU.431.1%40gated-at.bofh.it&rnum=1

	(google linux-kernel include/abi)

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-23 23:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-23 18:07 Userland headers available Mariusz Mazur
2004-01-23 18:47 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-01-23 19:04   ` Mariusz Mazur
2004-01-23 19:15   ` Chris Friesen
2004-01-23 19:39     ` Chris Friesen
2004-01-23 23:47       ` jw schultz [this message]
2004-01-24  1:38       ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-01-25 23:30         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-01-26  0:09           ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-01-23 20:28   ` Sam Ravnborg

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