Re: [RFC] Splitting kernel headers and deprecating __KERNEL__

[Sam Ravnborg]

On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 04:54:33PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> >  (5) For userspace use (such as for glibc), the appropriate include/user*/
> >      directories should be selected and installed in /usr/include/ or wherever,
> >      and symlinks made. For example, on i386 arch boxes, you might find:
> > 
> > 	SOURCE			INSTALLED AS
> > 	======================	============
> > 	include/user/		/usr/include/user/
> > 	include/user-i386/	/usr/include/user-i386/
> > 				/usr/include/linux -> user
> > 				/usr/include/asm -> user-i386
> 
> This proposal doesn't address the asm-generic problem directly.  Can I
> presume that you intend to also create linux/include/user-generic, install
> it as /usr/include/user-generic and create an asm-generic symlink that
> points to user-generic?  A good problem file to be dealt with would
> be asm/errno.h

Do not allow asm-generic to be used direct by userspace.
The example with errno.h is handled by user-i386/errno.h which includes
asm-generic/errno.h.

Would that do the trick - yes?

	Sam
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