Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261743AbTEUHzd (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 May 2003 03:55:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261710AbTEUHmh (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 May 2003 03:42:37 -0400 Received: from zeus.kernel.org ([204.152.189.113]:58838 "EHLO zeus.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261670AbTEUHl4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 May 2003 03:41:56 -0400 Message-ID: <3ECB10BD.8070105@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 22:38:05 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030211 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, sv MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Martin Schlemmer CC: Chris Friesen , Riley Williams , David Woodhouse , "Eric W. Biederman" , KML Subject: Re: Recent changes to sysctl.h breaks glibc References: <3ECA3535.7090608@nortelnetworks.com> <3ECA60B0.6040402@zytor.com> <1053491987.9142.1474.camel@workshop.saharact.lan> In-Reply-To: <1053491987.9142.1474.camel@workshop.saharact.lan> 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: 868 Lines: 24 Martin Schlemmer wrote: > > The only issue that we might have, is that will once > again break many things. Sure, if we have to fix them once to get > this fixed for good, why not. > > On the other hand, why not leave it at and > as the location of the ABI, and then move all kernel only > related stuff to (or whatever, just the concept which > count ...) which can then include whatever it needs form the other > places (linux/asm)? > Because then there will be a push to be backward compatible, and the current structure is hideously poor for this purpose. -hpa - 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/