Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 1 Dec 2004 12:46:22 +0100 | From | Ralf Baechle <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Splitting kernel headers and deprecating __KERNEL__ |
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On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 09:42:16AM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> I've lost track of the number of times things have broken because of > incorrect use of kernel headers from userspace. That's what we're trying > to fix -- by putting only the bits which are _supposed_ to be visible > into files which userspace sees, where we know they define part of the > userspace API and hence we can be extremely careful when editing them. > > I don't think it makes sense at this point for us to bury our collective > heads in the sand and pretend there isn't a problem here that's worth > fixing. > > I agree that it should be obviously correct though -- and that's why > we're trying to end up with a structure that in the first pass would > give us in userspace essentially what we already have in the various > glibc-kernheaders packages, but without the constant and unnecessary > need for some poor sod to keep those up to date by hand.
The concept of copying kernel headers into applications is even worse when arch portability is affected. I stopped counting how often I had to fix that kind of crap - and the state of kernel headers and userspace kernel header packages is really provoking that kind of mess.
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