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Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 22:19:23 +0100
From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] Splitting kernel headers and deprecating __KERNEL__
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On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 10:11:43PM +0100, Andreas Steinmetz wrote:
> >If we go for some resturcturing of include/ then we should get rid of
> >the annoying asm symlink. Following layout deals with that:
> >
> >include/<arch>/asm		<= Files from include/asm-<arch>
> >include/<arch>/mach*		<= Files from include/mach-*
> >
> >This layout solve the symlink issue in an elegant way.
> >We need to do trivial changes to compiler options to make it work. Changing
> >compiler options is much more relaible than using symlinks.
> >
> >Then the userspace part would then be located in:
> >include/<arch>/user-asm
> >
> 
> This complicates things for bi-arch architectures like x86_64 where one 
> can use a dispatcher directory instead of a symlink to suit include/asm 
> for 32bit as well as 64bit.
X86_64 does not create any special symlinks todays so I do not see the point?
And still a symlink is just the wrong way to solve the problem.
Adjusting options to the compiler is the way to do it.

	Sam