Re: Simple header cleanups

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 16:37 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 17:32 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> > Sounds like they want it BSD-style. Do they realize that?
> > New release, new headers, making it necessary to recompile every app, 
> > because a struct could have changed. That'd seriously impact 
> > compatibility.
> 
> Utter crap.
> 
> We don't _change_ any of the structs which would be exposed in such
> files (i.e. the structs which should be outside the #ifdef __KERNEL__ at
> the moment, because that would mean we break userspace binary
> compatibility from kernel to kernel.
> 
> We absolutely do _NOT_ want to go there. We're talking about cleaning up
> the existing mess, not starting a crack habit.
> 

btw one advantage of having the user visible structures in their own
headers is that it becomes immediately more obvious that it IS a shared
struct and any reviewer can then scream about the ABI break.,,,

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