Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Portable binary drivers | Date | Tue, 7 Dec 1999 19:29:24 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> So how should the header files for an ioctl interface to a driver be > handled then? It seems like a waste of energy to have two keep one > file for userspace use and one for kernel use, especially since the > two have to be kept in sync.
You either keep two files, or you carefully set up that file so that it has ifdef __KERNEL__ wrappers and can be used.
The whole point of seperating glibc/kernel includes is that glibc presents a platform that is not neccessarily what the kernel provides. It isolates apps from kernel changes.
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