Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 26 Nov 2004 14:19:35 +0000 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Splitting kernel headers and deprecating __KERNEL__ |
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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:
install_user_headers: $(srctree)/scripts/install_user_headers.sh
#!/bin/bash rm -rf /usr/include/asm /usr/include/linux /usr/include/asm-generic mkdir /usr/include/asm /usr/include/linux /usr/include/asm-generic
to_user() { sed -e 's,<user/,<linux/, \ -e 's,<user-generic/,<asm-generic,' \ -e 's,<user-[^/]*/,<asm,' \ <$1 >$2 }
for src in include/user/*; do to_user $src /usr/include/linux/`basename $src` done
for src in include/user-$ARCH/*; do to_user $src /usr/include/asm/`basename $src` done
for src in include/user-generic/*; do to_user $src /usr/include/asm-generic/`basename $src` done
If we really wanted to get fancy, we could also sed __u32 to uint32_t. But that would probably cause more pain, confusion, hurt and bad feeling than I'd ever want to be responsible for.
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