Re: [GIT PULL] Disintegrate the User API from the kernel headers
From: Catalin Marinas
Date: Tue Oct 02 2012 - 12:23:04 EST
Hi David,
On 1 October 2012 22:05, David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Could you please pull this tree at the _end_ of this merge window?
>
> The patches therein extract the Userspace API bits from the various header
> files named in the Kbuild files and separate them out into their own files.
> The original files are then given #includes to the new files.
>
> Each new file appears in a subdirectory under either include/uapi/ or
> arch/x/include/uapi/ that corresponds to the subdirectory containing that file
> under include/ or arch/x/include/.
...
> NOTE! These patches may need regenerating if the header files change too much
> during the remainder of the merge window. This can mostly be handled
> automatically as the disintegration procedure is scripted.
There is arm64 that got merged, so its headers need splitting as well.
I'm happy to send a pull request myself just for arm64 if you give me
the script, otherwise you can run you script again close to -rc1 (and
I'll test it).
Thanks.
--
Catalin
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