Re: [RFC] Splitting out kernel<=>userspace ABI headers

[H. Peter Anvin]

Erik Andersen wrote:
> On Fri Sep 02, 2005 at 10:22:20PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> > Exportable types need to be double-underscore types, because the header 
> > files in user space that would include them can generally not include 
> > <stdint.h>.
>
>
> I'm not talking about kernel headers that have to worry about
> eventually being included in user space headers.  Those nearly
> all live in include/asm.  I'm talking about the kernel headers
> that define how userspace is supposed to interface with
> particular kernel drivers or hardware.  Headers such as
> linux/cdrom.h and linux/loop.h and linux/fb.h.

What are you going to do with them if you're not going to include them 
in userspace?!!!

If you're proposing one policy for linux/loop.h and one for sys/stat.h, 
I would have to classify that as insane.  Everything that gets exported 
to userspace should behave the same way, please.

	-hpa
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