On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 11:26 -0700, Grant Grundler wrote: > On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 07:53:58PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 10:32 -0700, Roland Dreier wrote: > > > I would like to get people's reactions to moving the InfiniBand .h > > > files from their current location in drivers/infiniband/include/ to > > > include/linux/rdma/. If we agree that this is a good idea then I'll > > > push this change as soon as 2.6.14 starts. > > > > please only put userspace clean headers here; the rest is more or less > > private headers for your subsystem. > > Sorry...this smells like a rathole...but does this mean > linus agrees the kernel subsystems should export headers suitable for > both user space and kernel driver modules? > > Historical, I thought glibc and other user space libs were expected to > maintain their own set of header files. Maybe I'm just confused...
there is a definite requirement for the kernel to expose SOME things to userspace. Well for SOMETHING to expose them. Right now most distros ship a hacked up version of the kernel headers (eg removed of all the kernel specific stuff and all the gpl inline code etc). A good part of making such an external project possible is to make a clean separation between userspace shared stuff and pure kernel internals. - 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/
