Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC] Splitting kernel headers and deprecating __KERNEL__ | From | Alexandre Oliva <> | Date | 25 Nov 2004 16:20:06 -0200 |
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On Nov 25, 2004, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:
> SOURCE INSTALLED AS > ====================== ============ > include/user/ /usr/include/user/ > include/user-i386/ /usr/include/user-i386/ > /usr/include/linux -> user > /usr/include/asm -> user-i386
Although user/ and user-* make a lot of sense within the kernel source tree, I don't think these names would be very clear in /usr/include. I'd rather use names in /usr/include that more clearly associate them with the kernel. Heck, even /usr/include/asm is inappropriate, but it's been there for so long that we really shouldn't try to get rid of it.
If I had it my way, we'd have, in the kernel tree, userland-aimed headers in include/linux/user and include/asm-<machine>/user, and have them installed in /usr/include/linux and /usr/include/asm-<machine>.
This means these headers shouldn't reference each other as linux/user/something.h, but rather as linux/something.h, such that they still work when installed in /usr/include/linux. This may require headers include/linux/something.h to include linux/user/something.h, but that's already part of the proposal.
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