Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262884AbUK0CEh (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Nov 2004 21:04:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262406AbUKZThC (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Nov 2004 14:37:02 -0500 Received: from zeus.kernel.org ([204.152.189.113]:62401 "EHLO zeus.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262218AbUKZTWU (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Nov 2004 14:22:20 -0500 Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 14:19:35 +0000 From: Matthew Wilcox To: David Woodhouse Cc: David Howells , Matthew Wilcox , Alexandre Oliva , torvalds@osdl.org, hch@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, libc-alpha@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFC] Splitting kernel headers and deprecating __KERNEL__ Message-ID: <20041126141935.GA29035@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> References: <20041125210137.GD2849@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <19865.1101395592@redhat.com> <12983.1101470307@redhat.com> <1101470443.8191.9438.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1101470443.8191.9438.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1996 Lines: 54 On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 12:00:43PM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 11:58 +0000, David Howells wrote: > > How about calling the interface headers "kapi*/" instead of "user*/". In case > > you haven't guessed, "kapi" would be short for "kernel-api". > > I don't think that change really makes any difference. The nomenclature > really isn't _that_ important. Indeed. We could also make this transparent to userspace by using a script to copy the user-* headers to /usr/include. Something like this: install_user_headers: $(srctree)/scripts/install_user_headers.sh #!/bin/bash rm -rf /usr/include/asm /usr/include/linux /usr/include/asm-generic mkdir /usr/include/asm /usr/include/linux /usr/include/asm-generic to_user() { sed -e 's,$2 } for src in include/user/*; do to_user $src /usr/include/linux/`basename $src` done for src in include/user-$ARCH/*; do to_user $src /usr/include/asm/`basename $src` done for src in include/user-generic/*; do to_user $src /usr/include/asm-generic/`basename $src` done If we really wanted to get fancy, we could also sed __u32 to uint32_t. But that would probably cause more pain, confusion, hurt and bad feeling than I'd ever want to be responsible for. -- "Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception." -- Mark Twain - 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/