Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Nov 2004 21:01:37 +0000 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Splitting kernel headers and deprecating __KERNEL__ |
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On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 04:20:06PM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > This means these headers shouldn't reference each other as > linux/user/something.h, but rather as linux/something.h, such that > they still work when installed in /usr/include/linux. This may > require headers include/linux/something.h to include > linux/user/something.h, but that's already part of the proposal.
That's going to take severe brain-ache to get right ... and worse, keep right. These headers aren't going to get tested outside the kernel tree often. So we'll have missing includes and files that only work if the <linux/> they're including is a kernel one rather than a user one.
I'm not particularly stuck on the <user/> namespace. We could invent a better name. How about <kern/> and <arch/> to replace <linux/> and <asm/>? Obviously keeping linux/ and asm/ symlinks for backwards compatibility.
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