Message-Id: <200411301218.iAUCI4o7003833@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
       Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>, 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__ 
In-Reply-To: Message from Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> 
   of "Fri, 26 Nov 2004 14:19:35 -0000." <20041126141935.GA29035@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> 
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 09:18:04 -0300
From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
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Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> said:
> 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:

And get them promptly out of sync with glibc &c when the kernel changes.
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