Re: [RFC] Splitting kernel headers and deprecating __KERNEL__

[Horst von Brand]

Matthew Wilcox <matthew@xxxxxx> said:
> On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 12:00:43PM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 11:58 +0000, David Howells wrote:

> > > How about calling the interface headers "kapi*/" instead of "user*/".
> > > In case you haven't guessed, "kapi" would be short for "kernel-api".

> > I don't think that change really makes any difference. The nomenclature
> > really isn't _that_ important.

> Indeed.  We could also make this transparent to userspace by using a script
> to copy the user-* headers to /usr/include.  Something like this:

And get them promptly out of sync with glibc &c when the kernel changes.
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