Re: From Eric Anholt:

From: Eric Anholt
Date: Wed May 12 2004 - 20:32:20 EST


On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 16:34, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
> On Wed, 12 May 2004 00:20:51 BST, Dave Airlie said:
>
> > I just looked at drm.h and nearly all the ioctls use int, this file is
> > included in user-space applications also at the moment, I'm worried
> > changing all ints to __u32 will break some of these, anyone on DRI list
> > care to comment?
>
> Is this a case where somebody is *really* including kernel headers in userspace
> and we need to smack them, or are they using a copy that's been sanitized
> (and possibly fixed)?

These headers being discussed are what define the interface between
userland and kernel, and nothing else. They are included by both
userland (libdrm, statically linked in the 3d drivers and in the X
server) and kernel.

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Eric Anholt eta@xxxxxxxxxx
http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/ anholt@xxxxxxxxxxx


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