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From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Splitting kernel headers and deprecating __KERNEL__
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 01:21:20 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <colqmg$jcd$1@terminus.zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20041201114622.GB4876@linux-mips.org

Followup to:  <20041201114622.GB4876@linux-mips.org>
By author:    Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> The concept of copying kernel headers into applications is even worse
> when arch portability is affected.  I stopped counting how often I had
> to fix that kind of crap - and the state of kernel headers and userspace
> kernel header packages is really provoking that kind of mess.
> 

Indeed.  The major reason why we need the kernel to export its own ABI
information is because there are at my last counting 18 architectures
running stock Linux, and each one of them has *at least* one ABI, and
they're all different.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2004-12-02  1:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 185+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-25 15:13 [RFC] Splitting kernel headers and deprecating __KERNEL__ David Howells
2004-11-25 15:23 ` David Woodhouse
2004-11-25 16:54 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-11-25 18:17   ` David Woodhouse
2004-11-27  3:24     ` Greg KH
2004-11-28 23:37       ` Paul Mackerras
2004-11-29  1:28         ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-29  4:36           ` Jeff Garzik
2004-11-29  4:57             ` Al Viro
2004-11-29  5:27               ` Tim Hockin
2004-11-29  7:51             ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-12-05  0:49             ` Rob Landley
2004-12-05  2:26               ` Andries Brouwer
2004-12-05 13:19                 ` David Greaves
2004-12-05 15:57                   ` Andries Brouwer
2004-12-05 23:05                     ` Rob Landley
2004-12-06  9:56                       ` Andries Brouwer
2004-11-29  9:42           ` David Woodhouse
2004-11-30  8:08             ` Alex Riesen
2004-11-30  8:57               ` Alex Riesen
2004-12-01 11:46             ` Ralf Baechle
2004-12-02  1:21               ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2004-11-29  9:53           ` Paul Mackerras
2004-11-29  9:57             ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-11-29 10:01               ` David Woodhouse
2004-11-29 11:41           ` Mariusz Mazur
2004-11-29 17:09           ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-11-29 17:41             ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-29 22:44               ` Al Viro
2004-12-01 11:36                 ` Roman Zippel
     [not found]               ` <oract0thnj.fsf@livre.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br>
2004-11-29 23:00                 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-30  0:45                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-11-30  5:31                   ` Herbert Poetzl
2004-11-30  6:44                   ` bert hubert
2004-11-30 21:22                   ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-11-30 22:22                     ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-30 22:57                       ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-11-30 23:12                         ` Linus Torvalds
2004-12-01 19:41                           ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-12-01 19:54                             ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-12-02  3:58                             ` Linus Torvalds
2004-12-02  4:28                               ` Bernd Eckenfels
2004-12-02  5:11                                 ` Peter Williams
2004-12-02 11:30                                   ` Tomas Carnecky
2004-12-02 22:17                                     ` Peter Williams
2004-12-02  9:29                               ` Pekka Enberg
2004-12-02 15:35                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-12-02 21:46                                   ` Pekka Enberg
2004-11-30 15:35               ` David Woodhouse
2004-11-30 15:58                 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-30 16:28                   ` David Woodhouse
2004-11-30 16:53                     ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-30 17:52                       ` David Woodhouse
2004-11-30 18:21                         ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-30 20:28                           ` Mariusz Mazur
2004-11-30 20:47                             ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-30 22:33                               ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-11-30 22:44                                 ` Mariusz Mazur
2004-11-30 23:03                                   ` Al Viro
2004-11-30 23:08                                     ` Mariusz Mazur
2004-12-01  5:23                                       ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-12-01 10:52                                         ` Mariusz Mazur
2004-12-01 18:08                                           ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-11-30 23:13                                     ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-11-30 23:36                                     ` Chris Friesen
2004-12-01  5:50                               ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-11-30 22:48                           ` Matt Mackall
2004-11-30 22:51                             ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-11-30 23:09                               ` Chris Friesen
2004-11-30 23:35                                 ` Matt Mackall
2004-12-01  0:23                                 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2004-11-30 22:55                             ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-30 23:29                               ` Matt Mackall
2004-12-03  1:03                                 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2004-11-30 23:51                               ` David Woodhouse
2004-11-30 17:55                       ` Al Viro
2004-11-30 16:33                 ` David Howells
2004-11-30 16:57                   ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-30 15:33             ` David Howells
2004-11-30 15:51               ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-30 20:47                 ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-11-30 20:56                   ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-30 21:30                     ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-11-30 21:39                       ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-11-30 23:33                         ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-11-30 22:25                       ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-30 22:34                         ` David Woodhouse
2004-11-30 22:51                           ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-30 23:50                             ` David Woodhouse
2004-12-01  0:10                               ` Linus Torvalds
2004-12-01  0:18                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-12-01  8:10                                   ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-12-01  0:24                                 ` David Woodhouse
2004-12-01  0:37                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2004-12-01  0:47                                     ` David Woodhouse
2004-12-01  0:57                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2004-12-01  1:06                                         ` David Woodhouse
2004-12-01  1:23                                           ` Linus Torvalds
2004-12-01  6:48                                           ` BAIN
2004-12-01  2:02                               ` cdrom.h (was Re: [RFC] Splitting kernel headers...) Matthew Wilcox
2004-11-30 22:52                         ` [RFC] Splitting kernel headers and deprecating __KERNEL__ Mariusz Mazur
2004-11-30 23:05                           ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-30 23:05                         ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-11-30 16:18               ` David Howells
2004-12-14  5:51           ` Werner Almesberger
2004-12-14 15:49             ` Linus Torvalds
2004-12-14 16:50               ` Werner Almesberger
2004-12-14 17:58                 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-12-14 21:46                   ` Werner Almesberger
2004-12-14 21:58                     ` Linus Torvalds
2004-12-14 23:49                     ` Krzysztof Halasa
2004-12-15  0:09                       ` Werner Almesberger
2004-12-16  0:58                         ` Krzysztof Halasa
2004-12-14 19:23                 ` Horst von Brand
2004-12-14 19:45                   ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-12-14 19:58                     ` Linus Torvalds
2004-12-14 20:25                       ` Andreas Schwab
2004-12-14 20:33                         ` Linus Torvalds
2004-12-14 16:55               ` Andreas Schwab
2004-12-14 17:59                 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-27 20:39   ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-11-25 18:20 ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-11-25 21:01   ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-11-25 22:35     ` David Woodhouse
2004-11-26 11:42       ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-11-27  0:13       ` Andreas Steinmetz
2004-11-27  0:26         ` David Woodhouse
2004-11-27  0:30           ` Andreas Steinmetz
2004-11-27  0:38             ` David Woodhouse
2004-11-26 11:47     ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-11-26 11:53       ` David Woodhouse
2004-11-27 16:12       ` Krzysztof Halasa
2004-11-26 11:58   ` David Howells
2004-11-26 12:00     ` David Woodhouse
2004-11-26 14:19       ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-11-26 14:33         ` David Woodhouse
2004-11-27 12:10           ` Alexander Stohr
2004-11-27  3:46         ` Adam Heath
2004-11-30 12:18         ` Horst von Brand
2004-11-29 16:34     ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-11-25 18:45 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-11-26 11:52 ` David Howells
2004-11-26 23:56 ` Grzegorz Kulewski
2004-11-27  1:27   ` Tomas Carnecky
2004-11-27  1:41     ` Grzegorz Kulewski
2004-11-27  2:03       ` Tomas Carnecky
2004-11-27  3:07 ` Kyle Moffett
2004-11-27  4:29 ` Tonnerre
2004-11-27  3:51   ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-11-27 16:47     ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-11-27 17:16       ` David Woodhouse
2004-11-27 22:53         ` Arnd Bergmann
2004-11-27 23:12           ` David Woodhouse
2004-11-27 23:27           ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-11-27 23:32             ` David Woodhouse
2004-11-27 23:56               ` Arnd Bergmann
2004-11-28  7:13           ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-11-28 12:03             ` Arnd Bergmann
2004-11-28 12:19               ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-11-28 16:34                 ` Kevin Puetz
2004-11-28 12:28               ` Wichert Akkerman
2004-11-28 12:44                 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-11-28 16:21             ` Jakub Jelinek
2004-11-28  7:20           ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-11-27  4:05   ` Chris Friesen
2004-11-27  4:30   ` Tomas Carnecky
2004-11-27 21:03 ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-11-27 21:11   ` Andreas Steinmetz
2004-11-27 21:19     ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-11-27 21:49       ` Andreas Steinmetz
2004-11-27 23:21         ` Arnd Bergmann
2004-11-28 13:24           ` Andreas Steinmetz
2004-11-28 13:40             ` Arnd Bergmann
2004-11-29 11:08 ` David Howells
2004-11-29 20:01 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-11-30  0:34   ` Kyle Moffett
2004-11-30  0:51     ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-12-14  7:07   ` Werner Almesberger
2004-11-27 19:43 Dan Kegel
2004-11-27 21:06 ` Sam Ravnborg
     [not found] <34Xo6-2P0-19@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <35i9f-2vZ-25@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <35iLS-2Uo-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]     ` <35kb6-46Q-25@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-11-28  0:55       ` ak
2004-11-28 13:32         ` Arnd Bergmann
2004-11-30  1:43 Jean Tourrilhes
2004-11-30  4:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-30  6:51   ` H. Peter Anvin

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