From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: New location for generic headers?
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 13:19:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081203121955.GJ6703@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081203120110.GA2822@uranus.ravnborg.org>
> Should we try to get rid of all those silly:
> #include <asm-generic/foo.h>
> files we have in arch/$ARCH/include/asm?
>
> We could for example add include/generic/ last in the search path.
> Or we could add the files in include/asm and add that last in the
> search path.
>
> Then if we do not find <asm/foo.h> in arch/$ARCH/include/asm/
> then we search include/asm.
The only problem I see is that it would user space use of asm/
without make headers_install impossible. I suppose that could
break the setup of a lot of people? I think it would cause
problems on some of my older boxes at least.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-03 12:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-03 0:36 [PATCH] Clean up namespace in kmap_types.h Andi Kleen
2008-12-03 10:40 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-12-03 11:20 ` Andi Kleen
2008-12-03 12:13 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-12-03 12:01 ` New location for generic headers? Sam Ravnborg
2008-12-03 12:19 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-12-03 12:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-12-03 12:42 ` Andi Kleen
2008-12-03 12:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-12-03 12:26 ` Arnd Bergmann
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