Re: opaque types instead of union epoll_data

[Carlos O'Donell]

On 03/07/2017 12:59 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 09:33:57AM -0500, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>> I don't know anyone else who is working on this problem. Though I
>> have a vested interested in it as a glibc maintainer, since it would
>> be nice to avoid duplicate headers where possible between the kernel
>> and userspace.
> 
> I've been working with the bionic developers to try to help clean up
> some of these things.  Yes, epoll is messy here as you all have pointed
> out, and I'll be glad to review any patches that people submit for this.
> I need to get some spare time (hah!) to work through some of the issues
> that the bionic developers have already pointed out to me...

Sounds awesome. Please keep linux-api in the loop so the other libc
maintainers can follow along. From a glibc perspective I'm interested,
but also busy (see the other thread about libc-compat.h which has
immediate impact on header coordination).

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Cheers,
Carlos.