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Message-Id: <20070226.154308.112620497.davem@davemloft.net> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:43:08 -0800 (PST) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: hpa@...or.com Cc: a.gruenbacher@...puter.org, nathans@....com, bunk@...sta.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jmorris@...hat.com, dwmw2@...radead.org Subject: Re: include/linux/xattr.h: how much userpace visible? From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:28:57 -0800 > Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: > > On Monday, 24 July 2006 00:57, Nathan Scott wrote: > >> On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 08:43:43PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> how much of include/linux/xattr.h has to be part of the userspace kernel > >>> headers? > >> None, I think. > > > > None, indeed. The attr package comes with it own version of xattr.h that also > > includes definitions of XATTR_CREATE and XATTR_REPLACE. > > > > However, it would be better if the ABI constants were exported, or at > least *exportable* (using a __KERNEL_XATTR_MACROS test macro or > something like that.) This is the same situation as the socket.h issue we're trying to figure out what to do about. wrt. the socket.h case I think I'm going to revert the guilty changeset for now until a better scheme is implemented - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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