Re: [RFC] Splitting kernel headers and deprecating __KERNEL__

From: David Howells
Date: Mon Nov 29 2004 - 06:16:57 EST



Grzegorz Kulewski <kangur@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> > (b) Make kernel file #include the user file.
>
> Does kernel really need to include user headers? When it is definition of
> some const then it should be defined in one file (to be sure it has only
> one definition). But user headers may have some compatibility hacks that
> kernel do not need (and even maybe does not want) to have.
>
> How you will handle that?

I must have mis-explained it. I meant:

> > (b) Make kernel file #include the user/ file.

I don't actually mean that the kernel should in anyway touch userspace
headers. I was referring to the bits split out into user-xxxx/ directories.

David
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