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Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 05:06:35 -0700 From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@...il.com> To: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...nel.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, 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 On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 4:53 AM, David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> wrote: > 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. > As shown by x32, the kernel interface types are really arch-dependent. Any generic types based on long won't work for x32. -- H.J. -- 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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