From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030430AbWD1Ph3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Apr 2006 11:37:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030440AbWD1Ph3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Apr 2006 11:37:29 -0400 Received: from canuck.infradead.org ([205.233.218.70]:60371 "EHLO canuck.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030430AbWD1Ph3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Apr 2006 11:37:29 -0400 Subject: Re: Simple header cleanups From: David Woodhouse To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Linus Torvalds , Adrian Bunk , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <1146104023.2885.15.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> <1146105458.2885.37.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> <1146107871.2885.60.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> <20060427213754.GU3570@stusta.de> <20060427231200.GW3570@stusta.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 16:37:03 +0100 Message-Id: <1146238623.11909.524.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by canuck.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. -- dwmw2