From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
Cc: Mariusz Mazur <mmazur@kernel.pl>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, debian-glibc@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Userland headers available
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 14:15:36 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <401172D8.8040507@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20040123184755.GA2138@nevyn.them.org
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> I would really like to come up with an approach to maintain this
interface
> definition in the kernel source. I'm still trying to think of a
> way to do it without breaking compatibility or kernel builds.
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.
This sounds too easy though--I'm sure I've missed something, but I can't
think what....
Chris
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-23 19:16 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 [this message]
2004-01-23 19:39 ` Chris Friesen
2004-01-23 23:47 ` jw schultz
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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