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On Nov 30, 2004, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> wrote: >> I've suggested "include/user/" and "include/asm-xxx/user", which handles >> architecture-specific parts too. I'm ok with doing it the other way >> around, ie "include/user/" and "include/user/arch-xxxx". > As I pointed out, `user' is a very bad name. As you said yourself, > we're talking about the *kernel* ABI. So what's `user' supposed to > mean? Was I so successful in my arguments that you now see it as the > userland ABI? :-) I got carried away with joking and failed to repeat why I consider it a bad name (assuming that, since you missed the beginning of the thread, you probably missed the first reply I posted to the message that started it): since we're going to install these headers in /usr/include (where headers for userland live), /usr/include/user is quite misleading. /usr/include/kernel would be far more appropriate for this purpose. Sure, we could take headers from linux-*/include/user and install them in /usr/include/kernel, but then includes in there that reference other headers in user/ or in asm-<arch>/ will cease to work. So we should come up with a name that makes sense for both users of these headers, which is why I suggested ukabi. linux/abi and asm-<mach>/abi work just as well, and then we can soft-link `abi -> .' in /usr/include/{linux,asm-<mach>} if needed. Ideally, we wouldn't have to. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
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