Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755960Ab3IDBJX (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Sep 2013 21:09:23 -0400 Received: from intranet.asianux.com ([58.214.24.6]:3024 "EHLO intranet.asianux.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752406Ab3IDBJW (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Sep 2013 21:09:22 -0400 X-Spam-Score: -100.9 Message-ID: <52268800.2010200@asianux.com> Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 09:08:16 +0800 From: Chen Gang User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130110 Thunderbird/17.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Geert Uytterhoeven CC: Jiri Kosina , Paul McKenney , "dhowells@redhat.com" , Thomas Gleixner , Dave Jones , Arnd Bergmann , David Miller , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH trivial] UAPI: Kbuild: add/modify comments for "uapi/Kbuild" and "uapi/linux/Kbuild" References: <52005571.4080704@asianux.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=GB2312 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1746 Lines: 57 On 09/04/2013 12:41 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 3:46 AM, Chen Gang wrote: >> --- a/include/uapi/Kbuild >> +++ b/include/uapi/Kbuild >> @@ -1,7 +1,6 @@ >> # UAPI Header export list >> -# Top-level Makefile calls into asm-$(ARCH) >> -# List only non-arch directories below >> - >> +# Except "linux/", UAPI means Universal API. > > Sorry for my silly question, but what's the purpose of this "Universal > API" comment? > Firstly, at least for me, I don't think it is a silly question (maybe it means I should give additional explanations). :-) I 'guess' the "Universal API" means: "the API which can be used under multiple OS (independent from Linux), it may be used under kernel mode or user mode". It is just my 'guess', welcome additional suggestions or completions by any members. When we get this correct additional explanation after discussing, if suitable, I should add the final explanation to current patch. Thanks. >> +# For "linux/", UAPI means User API which can be used by user mode. >> >> header-y += asm-generic/ >> header-y += linux/ > > Gr{oetje,eeting}s, > > Geert > > -- > Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org > > In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But > when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. > -- Linus Torvalds > > -- Chen Gang -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/