Re: headers

From: Rob Landley
Date: Tue Aug 19 2003 - 10:18:43 EST


On Monday 18 August 2003 21:45, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Followup to: <UTC200308181907.h7IJ7im12407.aeb@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> By author: Andries.Brouwer@xxxxxx
> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> > From garzik@xxxxxxx 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.

But is it 2.6 work, or 2.8 work?

Rob


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