Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261468AbUK1NjO (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Nov 2004 08:39:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261469AbUK1NjO (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Nov 2004 08:39:14 -0500 Received: from natsmtp00.rzone.de ([81.169.145.165]:11504 "EHLO natsmtp00.rzone.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261468AbUK1NjI (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Nov 2004 08:39:08 -0500 From: Arnd Bergmann To: ak@muc.de Subject: Re: [RFC] Splitting kernel headers and deprecating __KERNEL__ Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 14:32:41 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Sam Ravnborg , David Howells , torvalds@osdl.org, hch@infradead.org, matthew@wil.cx, dwmw2@infradead.org, aoliva@redhat.com, Andreas Steinmetz References: <34Xo6-2P0-19@gated-at.bofh.it> <35kb6-46Q-25@gated-at.bofh.it> <20041128005506.96454.qmail@colin2.muc.de> In-Reply-To: <20041128005506.96454.qmail@colin2.muc.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_5NdqBEYtQyKtRPb"; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200411281432.41342.arnd@arndb.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1967 Lines: 53 --Boundary-02=_5NdqBEYtQyKtRPb Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On S=FCnndag 28 November 2004 01:55, ak@muc.de wrote: > Please don't do that. x86_64 are not really synchronized in development > (unlike s390/s390x) and I don't really want too coordinate too much > with the i386 people when I change something in asm. There are also > significant differences in some places already. > Keep it separate is imho far better. >=20 The ABI is actually a very small part of the asm/ files [1] and typically one that does not see many changes. I found 5 files (fcntl.h ioctl.h siginfo.h statfs.h types.h) that have trivial differences between i386 and x86_64 and can be merged, as well as 6 files (posix_types.h ptrace.h sigcontext.h signal.h stat.h unistd.h) that are so different that it makes sense to keep them completely separate files with an extra file to choose between them. The rest is either not part of the ABI or already identical. Arnd <>< [1] A quick browse over the files suggests we need only: errno.h fcntl.h ioctl.h ioctls.h ipc.h ipcbuf.h msgbuf.h param.h poll.h posix_types.h ptrace.h resource.h sembuf.h shmbuf.h shmparam.h sigcontext.h siginfo.h signal.h socket.h sockios.h stat.h statfs.h termbits.h termios.h types.h unistd.h If anyone has a better list, please post it. --Boundary-02=_5NdqBEYtQyKtRPb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBBqdN55t5GS2LDRf4RAlzZAKCibCSSlewsz6+/i5cemSwcFg4MMACffpcS weP0AoMW/sTpkCf1NFyC3Oo= =E4+Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_5NdqBEYtQyKtRPb-- - 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/