Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262438AbUK3X6R (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Nov 2004 18:58:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262431AbUK3Xzf (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Nov 2004 18:55:35 -0500 Received: from canuck.infradead.org ([205.233.218.70]:5130 "EHLO canuck.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262464AbUK3XwK (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Nov 2004 18:52:10 -0500 Subject: Re: [RFC] Splitting kernel headers and deprecating __KERNEL__ From: David Woodhouse To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Matt Mackall , Alexandre Oliva , Paul Mackerras , Greg KH , Matthew Wilcox , dhowells , hch@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, libc-hacker@sources.redhat.com In-Reply-To: References: <16810.24893.747522.656073@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <1101828924.26071.172.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> <1101832116.26071.236.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> <1101837135.26071.380.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> <20041130224851.GH8040@waste.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 23:51:37 +0000 Message-Id: <1101858697.4574.36.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 (2.0.2-3.dwmw2.1) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by canuck.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1297 Lines: 38 On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 14:55 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Matt Mackall wrote: > > > > So we follow dhowell's plan with the following additions: > > No. > > We do _not_ move stuff over that is questionable. > > I thought that was clear by now. The rules are: > - we only move things that _have_ to move > - we don't break existing programs, and no "but they are broken already" > is not an excuse. > - we only move things where that _particular_ move can be shown to be > beneficial. > > No whole-sale moves. No "let's break things that I think are broken". No > "let's change things because we can". > > Well-defined moves. Both in content _and_ in reason. Fine. And yes, we do it piecemeal with each part being given individual consideration. I'd like to aim for a conclusion where everything which userspace needs is in the new directories and nothing is required from the private directories any more. But let's start with the really important parts which really _are_ crying out to be fixed. -- dwmw2 - 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/