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Re: [RFC] Splitting kernel headers and deprecating __KERNEL__
- From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand at inf dot utfsm dot cl>
- To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew at wil dot cx>
- Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead dot org>, David Howells <dhowells at redhat dot com>, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>, torvalds at osdl dot org, hch at infradead dot org, linux-kernel at vger dot kernel dot org, libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 09:18:04 -0300
- Subject: Re: [RFC] Splitting kernel headers and deprecating __KERNEL__
Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> said:
> On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 12:00:43PM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 11:58 +0000, David Howells wrote:
> > > How about calling the interface headers "kapi*/" instead of "user*/".
> > > In case you haven't guessed, "kapi" would be short for "kernel-api".
> > I don't think that change really makes any difference. The nomenclature
> > really isn't _that_ important.
> Indeed. We could also make this transparent to userspace by using a script
> to copy the user-* headers to /usr/include. Something like this:
And get them promptly out of sync with glibc &c when the kernel changes.
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