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From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, Dominik.Strasser@t-online.de,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@transmeta.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: [PATCH] scsi.h uses "u8" which isn't defined.
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 20:08:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030818180845.GB3889@mars.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030818132451.A22393@infradead.org>

On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 01:24:51PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 02:19:41PM +0200, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
> > The right approach is not to break userspace without any kernel
> > benefit whatsoever, but to eliminate the accumulated cruft from
> > scsi.h.
> 
> Userspace is supposed to use the glibc <scsi/scsi.h> which is there
> for exactly that reason.

Hi Christoph & others.
Does anyone see a good way to provide a framework to auto-generate
user-space headers from the kernel versions?

hpa IIRC suggested to create a separate directory:
include/abi
and then all relevant parts of the kernel should publish their public
interface in the abi directory. Would that be usefull?

Another way could be to preprocess headerfiles, and store the output
in an abi directory.

Either way it could be good to have a sketch outlined, then
something could be made in 2.7 about this.

	Sam

  reply	other threads:[~2003-08-18 18:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-18 12:19 [PATCH] Re: [PATCH] scsi.h uses "u8" which isn't defined Andries.Brouwer
2003-08-18 12:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-08-18 18:08   ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2003-08-18 18:14     ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-18 15:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-08-18 15:32   ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-18 16:13 ` Patrick Mansfield
2003-08-18 12:36 Andries.Brouwer
     [not found] <lRjc.6o4.3@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <lRjg.6o4.15@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <lWLS.39x.5@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]     ` <lWLZ.39x.29@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-08-18 18:54       ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-08-18 19:04         ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-19 12:32           ` Rob Landley
2003-08-19 17:26             ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-20  1:42               ` Erik Andersen
2003-08-20 23:48             ` Jamie Lokier
2003-08-21  0:02               ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-22  0:32                 ` Rob Landley
2003-08-22  0:50                   ` Chris Friesen
2003-08-22  1:58                     ` Rob Landley
2003-08-22  0:54                   ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-18 20:40         ` Sam Ravnborg

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