Re: [gentoo-dev] linux-headers and glib-kernel-headers?

[Martin Schlemmer]

On Sat, 2004-02-07 at 03:41, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Friday 06 February 2004 08:29 pm, Kumba wrote:
> > I think there is some thought on LKML to resolve this finally in 2.6, by
> > creating a split in the kernel headers, separating out a sanitized set
> > of user-space headers and headers intended exclusively for the kernel.
> > No idea when this idea might be implemented in 2.6....it might become a
> > 2.7 feature.
>
> i think in the first few test's of 2.6.0 there was a couple of threads that
> actually had good things in them about producing a user-space API ... i dont
> remember the guy's name, but i saw one post where he cleaned up the API for
> some driver as a 'proof of concept' dealie ...
>

Adrian Bunk did a cleanup, but as always there was the negative factor
on LKML, which shot his stuff totally down.  I am not sure if anybody
else have done this.

There is also a project for 2.6 sanitized headers (like the RH thing),
but I heard it is rather a butchering - cannot comment myself though.

> but like kumba said, i think the end result was that they want to do this, but
> it's going to happen in 2.7 (2.8 for most of us)
>

They have always said they want to do this - even 6-8 months ago when
I started a thread about cdrecord.  It is however very low priority
(and if you really want my opinion, its more an excuse if pressed into
and corner than anything else).


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Martin Schlemmer
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer
Cape Town, South Africa