Re: [arc-linux-dev] Re: UAPI for new arches (was Re: [GIT PULL] User API Disintegrate: Preparatory patches)

[David Howells]

James Hogan <james.hogan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The disintegration scripts strip out the #ifdef __KERNEL__ from the
> headers in both uapi/ and the old directories. However there are still a
> bunch of unexported headers through the tree which have #ifdef
> __KERNEL__ in them, usually guarding the entire file (just grep
> __KERNEL__ in arch/).
> 
> Is this something that you're already planning to eliminate? We have a
> few in the metag tree too, and now that uapi/ is nicely separated I'm
> not sure if it's worth removing the __KERNEL__ guards or keeping them to
> match other architectures.

I would like to remove the __KERNEL__ guards from KAPI files - they should not
be necessary there.

In the UAPI files, it will, unfortunately, be necessary to keep some of the
__KERNEL__ guards that remain.

David
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