From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932178AbVIJWI2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Sep 2005 18:08:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932321AbVIJWI2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Sep 2005 18:08:28 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:51161 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932178AbVIJWI1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Sep 2005 18:08:27 -0400 Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 15:04:46 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Kyle Moffett Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com, bunk@stusta.de Subject: Re: [RFC][MEGAPATCH] Change __ASSEMBLY__ to __ASSEMBLER__ (defined by GCC from 2.95 to current CVS) Message-Id: <20050910150446.116dd261.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <4FAE9F58-7153-4574-A2C3-A586C9C3CFF1@mac.com> References: <20050903064124.GA31400@codepoet.org> <4319BEF5.2070000@zytor.com> <5A37B032-9BBD-4AEA-A9BF-D42AFF79BC86@mac.com> <9C47C740-86CF-48F1-8DB6-B547E5D098FF@mac.com> <97597F8E-DDCE-479F-AE8D-CC7DC75AB3C3@mac.com> <20050910014543.1be53260.akpm@osdl.org> <4FAE9F58-7153-4574-A2C3-A586C9C3CFF1@mac.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Kyle Moffett wrote: > > On Sep 10, 2005, at 04:45:43, Andrew Morton wrote: > > This patch seems to have a rather low value-to-noise ratio. Why > > on earth do we want to do this? > > When I started trying to split out the userspace<=>kernelspace ABI > headers, I > found a number of things (such as __ASSEMBLY__) that would not operate > properly in userspace. Oh, OK. What's the status of this userspace ABI project? Is it a thing we want to do? How far along is it? Have we worked out how it is to be done? I haven't been paying much attention to the discussion (self-defense reflex ;))