From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750926AbWD3J7X (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Apr 2006 05:59:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750917AbWD3J7X (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Apr 2006 05:59:23 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:42630 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750928AbWD3J7X (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Apr 2006 05:59:23 -0400 Subject: Re: Simple header cleanups From: David Woodhouse To: Peter Chubb Cc: Linus Torvalds , Adrian Bunk , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <17492.34204.844839.262357@wombat.chubb.wattle.id.au> 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> <17492.34204.844839.262357@wombat.chubb.wattle.id.au> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 10:59:48 +0100 Message-Id: <1146391189.10561.157.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 (2.6.1-1.fc5.2.dwmw2.1) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.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 Sun, 2006-04-30 at 19:38 +1000, Peter Chubb wrote: > So now we need something new. No we don't. We need only what we've already got. Our headers are perfectly sufficient in principle -- we're already _relatively_ careful not to pollute them with random kernel-private type and other stuff. It's just that we need to be a little more competent at that, and that's why we need the set of cleanups I've made and a tool to make life easier. There's nothing particularly exciting to see here; there's no need for any more fundamental change in the way things work. Eliminating ifdefs and moving stuff into appropriate directories might make it even easier still, if we do end up going that far. Certainly it's the kind of cleanup which is _welcomed_ in C files, although headers seem to be a touchy subject so I'm avoiding that question for now. But if we keep talking like this about crap like random userland namespaces then I have a feeling Linus is just going to shut down and not even take the normal, uncontentious cleanup patches which I was careful to limit myself to because I didn't want to have wasted my time. -- dwmw2