Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 3 Oct 2003 19:32:51 +0200 | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] linuxabi |
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On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 08:39:50AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > So all of the definitions exported > through linuxabi need to be in a linux centric namespace.
What we try to achieve is to use the same headerfiles for user, and kernel. Previously this has been done by including selected files direct from include/linux/*. A few cases that I recall is DVB, scsi, and ipv6. For all of these there were no need to create a specific linux namespace. If there is parts of the kernel that _really_ require a separate linux namespace then we need to find a solution for that part. But we should not try to uglify the interface becasue a limited part of the kernel interface have specific needs.
And since dvb, scsi and ipv6 could accept current namespace before, they should also be able to accept it today - no?
The concept introduced by inventing abi/ is to make it visible what part of the kernel interface is actually visible from user level. And also a good way for us to make sure no kernel specific types sneaks in.
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