Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/13] UAPI header file split | Date | Mon, 23 Jul 2012 15:50:43 +0000 |
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On Friday 20 July 2012, David Howells wrote: > (a) It reduces the size of the kernel-only headers and obviates the need > for __KERNEL__ conditionals in the remnant kernel-only headers. > > (b) In what we have today, there are complex interdependencies between > headers that are partly exported to user space, and we want to reduce > those interdependencies. > > It simplifies the problem space by splitting out the user headers as > they then only depend only on other user headers. > > This step makes it easier to follow through with the remaining steps as > the remnant kernel headers can be split up without regard as to whether > the UAPI will be broken. Header files such as linux/sched.h can even > disappear entirely if that seems convenient. > > There is another potential benefit as well: it becomes easier to track > when the UAPI changes just from the filenames in the GIT log. > > Further, linux-api@vger.kernel.org can be put into the MAINTAINERS file > for the uapi/ directories so that patches changing them get sent to that > list by everyone using get_maintainer.pl.
Looks all good to me. For the entire series:
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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