From: DervishD <raul@pleyades.net>
To: hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Header files and the kernel ABI
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 10:00:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D3FB035.mailB014KTO5@viadomus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aho5ql$9ja$1@cesium.transmeta.com>
Hi HPA :)
>I would like to propose that these files be set up in the #include
>namespace as <linux/abi/*>, with <linux/abi/arch/*> for any
>architecture-specific support files (I do believe, however, that those
>files should only be included by files in the linux/abi/ root. This
>probably would be a symlink to ../asm/abi in the kernel sources,
>unless we change the kernel include layout.)
I think this is a *really* great idea. It will solve lots of
problems IMHO. Now the glibc copies some of the kernel headers, and
in the future it will support more, but standarizing an ABI set of
headers will be better (IMHO again). Go for it ;)
Raúl
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-25 7:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-25 6:28 Header files and the kernel ABI H. Peter Anvin
2002-07-25 6:51 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-07-25 7:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-07-25 7:32 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-07-25 16:29 ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-07-25 16:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-07-25 18:19 ` Erik Andersen
2002-07-25 20:03 ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-07-27 11:29 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-07-25 16:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-07-25 8:00 ` DervishD [this message]
2002-07-25 13:08 ` Brad Hards
2002-07-25 16:09 ` DervishD
2002-07-25 16:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-07-25 18:22 ` Erik Andersen
2002-07-31 21:37 ` Kernel ABI BoF at Linux-Kongress? [was: Header files and the kernel ABI] Brad Hards
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2002-07-25 21:13 Header files and the kernel ABI dank
2002-07-26 2:37 ` jw schultz
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