Re: [RFC] Splitting kernel headers and deprecating __KERNEL__

H. Peter Anvin
2004-11-30T00:45:58Z

Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0411291458040.22796@ppc970.osdl.org>
By author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> If glibc wants to do something new, go wild. The kernel won't care.
>
> And that's really the fundamental issue. The kernel does not care what
> user land does. The kernel exports functionality, the kernel does _not_
> ask user land to help.
>
> That _does_ make it a one-way street. Sorry.
>

And it SHOULD be a one-way street. A lot of the ugliness in the
current stuff comes from the fact that the kernel tries to export
libc4/5 internals, instead of the real kernel ABI.

-hpa