linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] timerfd: expose uapi header

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Message-ID: <20151005212057.396698cc@lse.epita.fr>
Date:	Mon, 5 Oct 2015 21:20:57 +0200
From:	Gabriel Laskar <gabriel@....epita.fr>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@...co.com>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@....samsung.com>,
	stephen hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
	Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>,
	Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@...panasonic.com>,
	open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"open list:ABI/API" <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] timerfd: expose uapi header

On Mon, 05 Oct 2015 16:57:21 +0200
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:

> On Monday 05 October 2015 16:53:39 Gabriel Laskar wrote:
> > this patch expose the timerfd apis to the userland. It is already in
> > glibc header sys/timerfd.h but not synchronised, and missing the ioctl
> > number definition.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Gabriel Laskar <gabriel@....epita.fr>
> > 
> 
> What happens if you include both sys/timerfd.h and linux/timerfd.h then? 

It will conflict, yes, what should I do? make the kernel header in a
way that this will not conflict, or just patch the glibc headers too?

> > header-y += telephony.h
> > header-y += termios.h
> > header-y += thermal.h
> >+header-y += tiemrfd.h
> > header-y += time.h
> > header-y += times.h
> > header-y += timex.h
> 
> s/tiemrfd/timerfd/

I miss that, I really need to me more careful about this. Will send a
correction for this part.


-- 
Gabriel Laskar
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