Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753869AbdCHReN (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Mar 2017 12:34:13 -0500 Received: from mail-qk0-f176.google.com ([209.85.220.176]:34369 "EHLO mail-qk0-f176.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750888AbdCHReL (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Mar 2017 12:34:11 -0500 Subject: Re: opaque types instead of union epoll_data To: Greg KH References: <7b758a91-db08-3745-d08d-a09d00effb90@redhat.com> <20170307175931.GA31000@kroah.com> Cc: Sodagudi Prasad , linux-api@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "Carlos O'Donell" Organization: Red Hat Message-ID: Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 12:34:07 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20170307175931.GA31000@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 966 Lines: 21 On 03/07/2017 12:59 PM, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 09:33:57AM -0500, Carlos O'Donell wrote: >> I don't know anyone else who is working on this problem. Though I >> have a vested interested in it as a glibc maintainer, since it would >> be nice to avoid duplicate headers where possible between the kernel >> and userspace. > > I've been working with the bionic developers to try to help clean up > some of these things. Yes, epoll is messy here as you all have pointed > out, and I'll be glad to review any patches that people submit for this. > I need to get some spare time (hah!) to work through some of the issues > that the bionic developers have already pointed out to me... Sounds awesome. Please keep linux-api in the loop so the other libc maintainers can follow along. From a glibc perspective I'm interested, but also busy (see the other thread about libc-compat.h which has immediate impact on header coordination). -- Cheers, Carlos.