Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Simple header cleanups | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Thu, 27 Apr 2006 09:23:12 +0200 |
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On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 10:10 +0300, Denis Vlasenko wrote: > On Thursday 27 April 2006 06:31, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, David Woodhouse wrote: > > > > > > Agreed. And distributions and library maintainers _will_ fix them. Are > > > we to deny those people the tools which will help them to keep track of > > > our breakage and submit patches to fix it? > > > > No. As mentioned, as long as the target audience is distributions and > > library maintainers, I definitely think we should do help them as much as > > possible. Our problems have historically been "random people" who have > > /usr/include/linux being the symlink to "kernel source of the day", which > > is an unsupportable situation. > > Maybe we should have a script which processes kernel's include/linux/* > files and produces sanitized set of headers (by deleting > "#ifdef __KERNEL__" blocks, etc), which will be treated at > *the* official kernel<->userspace API and will be used by glibc etc? > > Such "kernel header sanitizator" script is to be maintained > and distributed as part of kernel tree.
this is what David is doing btw ;)
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