[RFC][PATCH 0/2] KABI example conversion and cleanup

Nix nix at esperi.org.uk
Sun Mar 26 15:43:41 CEST 2006


On Sun, 26 Mar 2006, Kyle Moffett said:
> On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 06:52:05 -0500 Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4 at mac.com> wrote:
>> 2)  Since most of the headers are currently quite broken with respect to
>>     GLIBC and userspace, I won't spend much extra time preserving
>>     compatibility with GLIBC, userspace, or non-GCC compilers.
> 
> That didn't come out right, but what I meant to say was this:  Since the 
> headers in include/linux are quite broken with respect to GLIBC and 
> userspace, I won't let so-called "compatibility" code like this get in 
> the way:

As long as the eventual goal is something that *works* with glibc and
uClibc and the rest of them, that's good enough as far as I can tell.
Obviously compatibility crud *in the headers* which serves no obvious
purpose and which userspace doesn't actually need should die (and
there's certainly some like that lying around).

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