From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751311AbVIBNlL (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Sep 2005 09:41:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751316AbVIBNlL (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Sep 2005 09:41:11 -0400 Received: from codepoet.org ([166.70.99.138]:32444 "EHLO codepoet.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751311AbVIBNlK (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Sep 2005 09:41:10 -0400 Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 07:41:09 -0600 From: Erik Andersen To: Kyle Moffett Cc: LKML Kernel , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [RFC] Splitting out kernel<=>userspace ABI headers Message-ID: <20050902134108.GA16374@codepoet.org> Reply-To: andersen@codepoet.org Mail-Followup-To: andersen@codepoet.org, Kyle Moffett , LKML Kernel , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-No-Junk-Mail: I do not want to get *any* junk mail. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu Sep 01, 2005 at 11:00:16PM -0400, Kyle Moffett wrote: > A while ago there was a big discussion about splitting out the > userspace-accessible portions of the kernel headers into a separate > directory, "kabi", "kernel-abi", "linux-abi", or a half-dozen other > suggestions. Linus sprinkled a bit of holy-penguin-pee on the idea, > but nothing ever really happened after that. Have you seen the linux-libc-headers: http://ep09.pld-linux.org/~mmazur/linux-libc-headers/ which, while not an official part of the kernel, do a pretty good job... -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen http://codepoet-consulting.com/ --This message was written using 73% post-consumer electrons--