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SubjectRe: [ANNOUNCE] linux-libc-headers 2.6.3.0
Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> writes:
>
>
>>IIRC the current agreed scheme is something along the lines of this:
>>
>>abi/abi-linux/* Userspace relevant parts of include/linux
>>abi/abi-asm/ symlink to abi/abi-$(ARCH)
>>abi/abi-i386 i386 specific userland abi
>>abi/abi-ppc ppc ....
>
>
> More efforts, no real effects.
> I don't think we need such an infrastructure.
> The normal headers should just be usable for user-space inclusion.

No, this is a big pain :)

The ABI headers shared with userspace need to be split from definitions
that are only used in kernel space. #ifdef __KERNEL__ is a source of
frustration :)

Jeff



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