Re: [ANNOUNCE] linux-libc-headers 2.6.3.0

[Jeff Garzik]

Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>
> > IIRC the current agreed scheme is something along the lines of this:
> >
> > abi/abi-linux/* Userspace relevant parts of include/linux
> > abi/abi-asm/ symlink to abi/abi-$(ARCH)
> > abi/abi-i386 i386 specific userland abi
> > abi/abi-ppc  ppc ....
>
>
> More efforts, no real effects.
> I don't think we need such an infrastructure.
> The normal headers should just be usable for user-space inclusion.

No, this is a big pain :)

The ABI headers shared with userspace need to be split from definitions 
that are only used in kernel space.  #ifdef __KERNEL__ is a source of 
frustration :)

	Jeff



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