Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263783AbTETNuU (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2003 09:50:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263789AbTETNuU (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2003 09:50:20 -0400 Received: from zcars0m9.nortelnetworks.com ([47.129.242.157]:45047 "EHLO zcars0m9.nortelnetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263783AbTETNtI (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2003 09:49:08 -0400 Message-ID: <3ECA3535.7090608@nortelnetworks.com> Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 10:01:25 -0400 X-Sybari-Space: 00000000 00000000 00000000 From: Chris Friesen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020204 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Riley Williams Cc: David Woodhouse , "H. Peter Anvin" , "Eric W. Biederman" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Recent changes to sysctl.h breaks glibc References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1255 Lines: 32 Riley Williams wrote: > First, is there anything in include/asm that is actually needed > outside the kernel itself? There shouldn't be, and if there is, > it needs to be moved to a header under include/linux that is > included in the relevant include/asm file. It's handy for stuff like getting high res timestamps without having to ifdef the case of building on different architechtures. Also, there are files under include/linux which end up including asm stuff in turn. > The basic rule would be that external software can make free > use of headers under include/linux but should never make any > use whatsoever of headers under include/kernel or include/asm > for any reason. What if the include/linux files themselves make use of the asm files? Chris -- Chris Friesen | MailStop: 043/33/F10 Nortel Networks | work: (613) 765-0557 3500 Carling Avenue | fax: (613) 765-2986 Nepean, ON K2H 8E9 Canada | email: cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com - 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/