Re: [RFC] Splitting kernel headers and deprecating __KERNEL__

Alexandre Oliva
2004-11-29T16:36:04Z

On Nov 26, 2004, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:

> How about calling the interface headers "kapi*/" instead of "user*/". In case
> you haven't guessed, "kapi" would be short for "kernel-api".

I've seen kapi being used to reference the api exposed by the kernel
to modules, but not the abi exposed to userland. ukabi sounds more
appropriate for the latter, although many people might wonder what's
with this United Kingdom ABI :-)

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