From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: headers
Date: 18 Aug 2003 18:45:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bhrvfh$394$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: UTC200308181907.h7IJ7im12407.aeb@smtp.cwi.nl
Followup to: <UTC200308181907.h7IJ7im12407.aeb@smtp.cwi.nl>
By author: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> From garzik@gtf.org Mon Aug 18 20:14:47 2003
>
> I support include/abi, or some other directory that segregates
> user<->kernel shared headers away from kernel-private headers.
>
> I don't see how that would be auto-generated, though. Only created
> through lots of hard work :)
>
> Yes, unfortunately. I started doing some of this a few times,
> but it is an order of magnitude more work than one thinks at first.
> Already the number of include files is very large.
> And the fact that it is not just include/abi but involves the architecture
> doesn't make life simpler.
>
> No doubt we must first discuss a little bit, but not too much,
> the desired directory structure and naming.
> Then we must do 5% of the work, and come back to these issues.
>
> In case people actually want to do this, I can coordinate.
>
> In case people want to try just one file, do signal.h.
>
Oh yes, this is a whole lot of work.
-hpa
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-19 1:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-18 19:07 headers Andries.Brouwer
2003-08-18 21:57 ` headers Randy.Dunlap
2003-08-18 22:04 ` headers Jeff Garzik
2003-08-18 22:17 ` headers Andries Brouwer
2003-08-19 1:45 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2003-08-19 12:55 ` headers Rob Landley
2003-08-19 15:45 ` headers Randy.Dunlap
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