linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 08/10] Use __kernel_ulong_t in struct msqid64

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Message-ID: <29366.1337341984@redhat.com>
Date:	Fri, 18 May 2012 12:53:04 +0100
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...nel.org>
Cc:	dhowells@...hat.com,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...nel.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/10] Use __kernel_ulong_t in struct msqid64_ds

H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...nel.org> wrote:

> User mode can, and should, be able to use the exported headers.  David
> Howells have been doing even more work to distill out the actual
> exported ABIs from the kernel and remove remaining chaff.

See:

	http://git.infradead.org/users/dhowells/linux-headers.git/shortlog/refs/heads/uapi-split

Linus: Any chance of this being pulled at the end of the next merge window?  I
know you said you didn't want to do another big header file cleanup for a
while after pulling the system.h disintegration, but I'm wondering if your
distaste has expired yet.

David
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