Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263579AbTETF7m (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2003 01:59:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263587AbTETF7m (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2003 01:59:42 -0400 Received: from mail.cpt.sahara.co.za ([196.41.29.142]:8945 "EHLO workshop.saharact.lan") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263579AbTETF7l (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2003 01:59:41 -0400 Subject: Re: Recent changes to sysctl.h breaks glibc From: Martin Schlemmer To: William Lee Irwin III Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , KML In-Reply-To: <20030519225602.GH8978@holomorphy.com> References: <1053289316.10127.41.camel@nosferatu.lan> <20030519063813.A30004@infradead.org> <1053341023.9152.64.camel@workshop.saharact.lan> <20030519105152.GD8978@holomorphy.com> <20030519224414.GG8978@holomorphy.com> <3EC95EA9.9060504@zytor.com> <20030519225602.GH8978@holomorphy.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1053410793.9142.125.camel@workshop.saharact.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.3- Date: 20 May 2003 08:06:34 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1306 Lines: 36 > On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 03:46:01PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > Unfortunately "the current policy" is unrealistic, and repeating it > > doesn't make it any less so. > > No contest there; unfortunately unrealistic amounts of work seem to > be required to get around the general state of affairs at times. =( > Does it really have to be 2.7? It seems most of this would be header > reorganization with no runtime impact on the kernel. > Well, this is a tender issue - both for users and non kernel developers working on a project that may (according to the author at least *g*) need kernel headers. Getting something done sooner than later would thus be appreciated from many venues, and will also get rid of your head aces =) Trying to get back to my point ... I am sure there are many people that will help getting this done, if only somebody with enough knowledge of how the kernel devs want the ABI headers to look like will take some kind of lead in the effort - i2c and sensor support in 2.5 is a good example. Regards, -- Martin Schlemmer - 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/