Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272236AbTHRSyH (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2003 14:54:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272238AbTHRSyH (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2003 14:54:07 -0400 Received: from natsmtp00.webmailer.de ([192.67.198.74]:59058 "EHLO post.webmailer.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272236AbTHRSyD (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2003 14:54:03 -0400 Message-ID: <3F4120DD.3030108@softhome.net> Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 20:54:21 +0200 From: "Ihar 'Philips' Filipau" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030701 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Garzik CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: [PATCH] scsi.h uses "u8" which isn't defined. References: In-Reply-To: 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: 1025 Lines: 29 Jeff Garzik wrote: >>hpa IIRC suggested to create a separate directory: >>include/abi >>and then all relevant parts of the kernel should publish their public >>interface in the abi directory. Would that be usefull? > > > I support include/abi, or some other directory that segregates > user<->kernel shared headers away from kernel-private headers. > > I don't see how that would be auto-generated, though. Only created > through lots of hard work :) > There is no need to be a prophet to predict linux/abi being 99% symlinks right into include/{asm,linux}. So it is can turn out to be the same ;-) It just adds job for mantainers. (To keep symlinks in correct order ;-))))) But generally idea is good: keep interface separately from implementation. - 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/