Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270641AbTHSPDz (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2003 11:03:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270772AbTHSPDz (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2003 11:03:55 -0400 Received: from dsl092-053-140.phl1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.92.53.140]:15002 "EHLO grelber.thyrsus.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270641AbTHSO7O (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2003 10:59:14 -0400 From: Rob Landley Reply-To: rob@landley.net To: "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: headers Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 08:55:06 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: In-Reply-To: Cc: Jeff Garzik MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200308190855.07181.rob@landley.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1457 Lines: 39 On Monday 18 August 2003 21:45, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Followup to: > By author: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > From garzik@gtf.org Mon Aug 18 20:14:47 2003 > > > > 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 :) > > > > Yes, unfortunately. I started doing some of this a few times, > > but it is an order of magnitude more work than one thinks at first. > > Already the number of include files is very large. > > And the fact that it is not just include/abi but involves the > > architecture doesn't make life simpler. > > > > No doubt we must first discuss a little bit, but not too much, > > the desired directory structure and naming. > > Then we must do 5% of the work, and come back to these issues. > > > > In case people actually want to do this, I can coordinate. > > > > In case people want to try just one file, do signal.h. > > Oh yes, this is a whole lot of work. But is it 2.6 work, or 2.8 work? Rob - 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/