linux-kernel - Re: [mingo@...e.hu: [git pull] headers

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Date:	Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:31:59 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@...il.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [mingo@...e.hu: [git pull] headers_check fixes]

* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> There are parts of the patches that look fine, like moving __KERNEL__ 
> checks around a bit, and changing <asm/types.h> to <linux/types.h> which 
> looks correct _both_ in a kernel and in a user context, but I dislike 
> the stupid parts.

okay - that was the general thinking and this went through a few 
iterations already - not enough it appears. The CONFIG_* thing was 
something that looked somewhat dubious to me too - changing it to those 
random __foo symbols didnt seem like an improvement.

Jaswider, would you mind re-doing the tree filtering out the CONFIG_* 
changes? I'll go over the end result once more to make sure it has no 
changes that make the code look worse.

I still think what i expressed elsewhere in these threads on lkml: 
'exporting' 75,000 lines of random kernel headers to user-space is really 
stretching the term - kernel-space is unaware of it in 90% of the cases. 
"spilling our guts to user-space" would be a more fair description.

It would be much better if we exported _much_ less and reduced our 
cross-section to user-space. Also, the include/linux/Kbuild rules are all 
but transparent: it would also be nice if whatever we exported was be 
visible straight in the header itself, to make it obvious to people who 
modify/extend those files that those definitions are going to be exported 
to user-space.

Some __user_export tag on structures perhaps? I have no good ideas here - 
#ifdefs are ugly and tags obscure the purity of the code.

	Ingo
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