Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 27 Nov 2004 08:47:11 -0800 | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Splitting kernel headers and deprecating __KERNEL__ |
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Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 05:29:42AM +0100, Tonnerre wrote: > >>Fnord alert: you're trying to change the API and the ABI of Linux. The thing > > > No we aren't. We're just trying to make the kernel interface more > explicit. Nothing should change as far as userspace programs are > concerned. It might need some coordination with the various libcs.
Speaking of more explicit, there are various asm-ARCH header files that do or do not hide (via __KERNEL__) interfaces such as: get_unaligned() and the atomic operations.
So are these Linux kernel exported APIs, or do they belong in some library?
We'll need to decide on a consistent remedy for these, and such changes could be made at any time IMO (i.e., soon).
> And enough with the doom-and-gloom big-companies-are-scared approach, OK? > It's (a) untrue, (b) irrelevant, and (c) many of us work for big companies > that are doing Linux already. We don't need to be lectured by you.
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