From: "H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 13:06:28 -0800
> In the current git tree, commit 57a87bb0720a5cf7a9ece49a8c8ed288398fd1bb > removes any way to automatically extracting a whole lot of ABI constants > from the kernel headers, especially AF_* and the various S_* constants. > > Furthermore, the patch breaks <linux/in.h> which uses sa_family_t, which > is now defined under __KERNEL__. ... > This patch breaks klibc in ways that are painfully hard to fix, and > *definitely* cannot be fixed by anything less than replication of all > these definitions, which is exactly the Wrong Thing[TM]. > > A much better solution (or complement) would be something like: > > #if defined(__KERNEL__) || defined(__KHDR_CONSTANTS) > > We could have __KHDR_CONSTANTS for the AF_* constants and __KHDR_MACROS > for the various macros (cmsg et al). That way the userspace library can > ask for what it wants. I'll think about what to do about this, thanks for pointing out the problem. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
