From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754181AbXJ3Ntf (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:49:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752155AbXJ3Nt1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:49:27 -0400 Received: from partizan.velesys.com ([213.184.230.195]:57694 "EHLO partizan.velesys.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751011AbXJ3Nt0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:49:26 -0400 Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:50:38 +0200 From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" To: David Woodhouse Cc: Linus Torvalds , Mike Frysinger , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Unexport several headers and cleanup Message-ID: <20071030135038.GA2429@localhost.localdomain> References: <1193742139-29738-1-git-send-email-k.shutemov@gmail.com> <1193748457.2915.163.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1193748457.2915.163.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> X-Operating-System: ALT Linux Sisyphus (20070101) (Kernel 2.6.24-kas-alt1) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On [Tue, 30.10.2007 08:47], David Woodhouse wrote: > On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 13:02 +0200, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > > This series of patches unexport several unneeded(I guess) headers from= =20 > > userspace. Patches based on patch posted to linux-kernel@ by Mike Frysi= nger > > in July. >=20 > Looks OK to me, in general. How much userspace have you tested building > with this? Does it include stuff like gdb? I have rebuilt gdb-6.6 on x86_64. Ok. Also, it fix building directfb on ARM. ;) =20 > Not that I necessarily care about the answer in the normal way -- it's > just that if userspace will need to adapt, I'd like to get them moving > ASAP. One option for easing that might be to export stuff like page.h > but _empty_. It's bad idea. Taken from directfb: #if HAVE_ASM_PAGE_H #include #else #define PAGE_SIZE sysconf( _SC_PAGESIZE ) #endif Other application can use something like this. I think we should drop empty headers. --=20 Regards, Kirill A. Shutemov + Belarus, Minsk + Velesys LLC, http://www.velesys.com/ + ALT Linux Team, http://www.altlinux.com/ --FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHJzaubWYnhzC5v6oRAs6FAJ92jjekriYQcfEpkhmgyJYSDSp2VwCfTv3Q 61f1vOU1x+efSF4wlWQFSEo= =C6kN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5--