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Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 02:14:17 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: include conventions /usr/include/linux/sys ?
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In-Reply-To: <8vhhnv$j0d$1@cesium.transmeta.com>; from hpa@zytor.com on Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 02:35:43PM -0800
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On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 02:35:43PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Followup to:  <NBBBJGOOMDFADJDGDCPHOEKLCJAA.law@sgi.com>
> By author:    "LA Walsh" <law@sgi.com>
> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >
> > Linus has mentioned a desire to move kernel internal interfaces into
> > a separate kernel include directory.  In creating some code, I'm wondering
> > what the name of this should/will be.  Does it follow that convention
> > would point toward a linux/sys directory?
> > 
> 
> I suggested include/kernel and include/arch with include/linux and
> include/asm being reserved for the kernel interfaces (ioctl and their
> structures mostly.)

It would also be useful to put *32 structures for 32->64bit conversion
in there (to prepare for a generic 32->64bit conversion layer in 2.5) 


-Andi

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