linux-kernel - Re: opaque types instead of union epoll

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Date:   Wed, 8 Mar 2017 19:01:35 +0100
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Carlos O'Donell <carlos@...hat.com>
Cc:     Sodagudi Prasad <psodagud@...eaurora.org>,
        linux-api@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: opaque types instead of union epoll_data

On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 12:34:07PM -0500, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On 03/07/2017 12:59 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 09:33:57AM -0500, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> >> I don't know anyone else who is working on this problem. Though I
> >> have a vested interested in it as a glibc maintainer, since it would
> >> be nice to avoid duplicate headers where possible between the kernel
> >> and userspace.
> > 
> > I've been working with the bionic developers to try to help clean up
> > some of these things.  Yes, epoll is messy here as you all have pointed
> > out, and I'll be glad to review any patches that people submit for this.
> > I need to get some spare time (hah!) to work through some of the issues
> > that the bionic developers have already pointed out to me...
> 
> Sounds awesome. Please keep linux-api in the loop so the other libc
> maintainers can follow along. From a glibc perspective I'm interested,
> but also busy (see the other thread about libc-compat.h which has
> immediate impact on header coordination).

Ah, I forgot to cc: linux-api on my last epoll header file change, I'll
go do that now before I commit it to my tree for 4.12...

thanks,

greg k-h