Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Tue, 2 Sep 2003 19:49:09 -0600 | From | Erik Andersen <> | Subject | Re: kernel header separation |
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On Tue Sep 02, 2003 at 08:16:14PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > In a continuing series of "Things we should have done 5 years ago, > do they really need to be done before the release of 2.6.0", here's a > prototype of splitting the kernel headers into stuff we want userspace > to see and stuff we don't. > > The basic principle is to put user headers in usr/include/linux and > usr/include/asm-$(ARCH). Kernel headers may then include them as > <user/foo.h> and <user-asm/foo.h> > > This patch implents the 4 lines of Makefile magic necessary and converts > cdrom.h to use this split. Note that we can convert headers as slowly as > we care to with this scheme.
Wohoo!! Great stuff. I hope this effort continues....
> RCS file: usr/include/linux/cdrom.h > diff -N usr/include/linux/cdrom.h > --- /dev/null 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -0000 > +++ usr/include/linux/cdrom.h 2 Sep 2003 19:07:48 -0000 > @@ -0,0 +1,719 @@ > +/* > + * -- <linux/cdrom.h> > + * General header file for linux CD-ROM drivers > + * Copyright (C) 1992 David Giller, rafetmad@oxy.edu > + * 1994, 1995 Eberhard Moenkeberg, emoenke@gwdg.de > + * 1996 David van Leeuwen, david@tm.tno.nl > + * 1997, 1998 Erik Andersen, andersee@debian.org > + * 1998-2000 Jens Axboe, axboe@suse.de > + */ > + > +#ifndef _LUSER_CDROM_H > +#define _LUSER_CDROM_H > + > +#include <linux/types.h> Header files intended for use by users should probably drop linux/types.h just include <stdint.h>,,, Then convert the types over to ISO C99 types.
s/__u8/uint8_t/g s/__u16/uint16_t/g s/__u32/uint32_t/g s/__u64/uint64_t/g
s/__s8/int8_t/g s/__s16/int16_t/g s/__s32/int32_t/g s/__s64/int64_t/g
What do you think?
-Erik
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