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Followup to: <20041201114622.GB4876@linux-mips.org> By author: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > The concept of copying kernel headers into applications is even worse > when arch portability is affected. I stopped counting how often I had > to fix that kind of crap - and the state of kernel headers and userspace > kernel header packages is really provoking that kind of mess. > Indeed. The major reason why we need the kernel to export its own ABI information is because there are at my last counting 18 architectures running stock Linux, and each one of them has *at least* one ABI, and they're all different. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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