linux-kernel - Re: Linux Kernel include files

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706250858160.20356@asgard.lang.hm>
Date:	Mon, 25 Jun 2007 09:00:59 -0700 (PDT)
From:	david@...g.hm
To:	Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling@...us.fraunhofer.de>
cc:	arnd@...db.de, vapier.adi@...il.com, schilling@...us.fraunhofer.de,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux Kernel include files

On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Joerg Schilling wrote:

> Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:
>
>> On Friday 22 June 2007, david@...g.hm wrote:
>>> this has been discussed many times and the answer is that the kernel is
>>> not gong to change it's side of things to ANSI C.
>>
>> I don't think that's entirely true with regard to the include files.
>> We have always tried not to step on anyone's toes there, e.g. regarding
>> the use of __u32 vs. uint32_t style types. It's certainly desirable
>> to make the kernel headers that are _meant_ for inclusion compatible
>> with standard compilers.
>>
>> Mike Frysinger has posted a few patches that make the installed headers
>> friendlier to strict C99 users. While there was some negative feedback
>> about these patches, it was not about the idea of making the installed
>> headers C99 clean, but rather about the question whether those non-clean
>> parts should be exported in the first place.
>
> Wouldn't it be simpler to ask the developers to deliver their include files
> in a state that is clean for user space programs?

that's what make headers_install does, as others have pointed out.

David Lang
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