Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262010AbUCDQuw (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Mar 2004 11:50:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262011AbUCDQuw (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Mar 2004 11:50:52 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:18314 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262010AbUCDQut (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Mar 2004 11:50:49 -0500 Message-ID: <40475E5C.9020708@pobox.com> Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 11:50:36 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Krzysztof Halasa CC: linuxabi@zytor.com, Chris Friesen , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] linux-libc-headers 2.6.3.0 References: <200402291942.45392.mmazur@kernel.pl> <200402292130.55743.mmazur@kernel.pl> <200402292221.41977.mmazur@kernel.pl> <40434BD7.9060301@nortelnetworks.com> <20040303152213.GA2148@mars.ravnborg.org> 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: 911 Lines: 31 Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > Sam Ravnborg writes: > > >>IIRC the current agreed scheme is something along the lines of this: >> >>abi/abi-linux/* Userspace relevant parts of include/linux >>abi/abi-asm/ symlink to abi/abi-$(ARCH) >>abi/abi-i386 i386 specific userland abi >>abi/abi-ppc ppc .... > > > More efforts, no real effects. > I don't think we need such an infrastructure. > The normal headers should just be usable for user-space inclusion. No, this is a big pain :) The ABI headers shared with userspace need to be split from definitions that are only used in kernel space. #ifdef __KERNEL__ is a source of frustration :) Jeff - 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/