From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270720AbTHSPJW (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2003 11:09:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270797AbTHSPED (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2003 11:04:03 -0400 Received: from dsl092-053-140.phl1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.92.53.140]:14746 "EHLO grelber.thyrsus.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270628AbTHSO7K (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2003 10:59:10 -0400 From: Rob Landley Reply-To: rob@landley.net To: Jeff Garzik , "Ihar 'Philips' Filipau" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: [PATCH] scsi.h uses "u8" which isn't defined. Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 08:32:24 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <3F4120DD.3030108@softhome.net> <20030818190421.GN24693@gtf.org> In-Reply-To: <20030818190421.GN24693@gtf.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200308190832.24744.rob@landley.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday 18 August 2003 15:04, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > But generally idea is good: keep interface separately from > > implementation. > > No, the idea is to physically separate the headers. > > include/{linux,asm} is currently copied to userspace, hacked a bit, > and then shipped as the "glibc-kernheaders" package. Or used directly by uclibc (and linux from scratch) to build the library against. > I would rather that the kernel developers directly maintained this > interface, by updating headers in include/abi, rather than ad-hoc by > distro people. > > Jeff Okay, I'd like to ask about the headers thing: I've got a project using uclibc, and build it myself, currently against the 2.4 headers. What's the plan for 2.6? Everything I've seen on the subject is "using kernel headers directly from userspace is evil, even to build your libc against, but we currently offer no alternative, so go bug your libc maintainer and have THEM do it..." I'm hoping I've missed something in the months I was off the list this spring, but haven't quite figured out what to search for in the archives yet... Rob