On Friday 20 July 2012, David Howells wrote: > (a) It reduces the size of the kernel-only headers and obviates the need > for __KERNEL__ conditionals in the remnant kernel-only headers. > > (b) In what we have today, there are complex interdependencies between > headers that are partly exported to user space, and we want to reduce > those interdependencies. > > It simplifies the problem space by splitting out the user headers as > they then only depend only on other user headers. > > This step makes it easier to follow through with the remaining steps as > the remnant kernel headers can be split up without regard as to whether > the UAPI will be broken. Header files such as linux/sched.h can even > disappear entirely if that seems convenient. > > There is another potential benefit as well: it becomes easier to track > when the UAPI changes just from the filenames in the GIT log. > > Further, [email protected] can be put into the MAINTAINERS file > for the uapi/ directories so that patches changing them get sent to that > list by everyone using get_maintainer.pl.
Looks all good to me. For the entire series: Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
