On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 03:24:14PM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > Hey Jim and other headers users, > > In case you missed it, there is a very interesting thread in LKML > about cleaning up a lot of headers for userspace. Could make your > life a lot easier. :) > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/4/26/296 > Yeah, but so far Linus is decidedly less than enthusiastic, so the first stage will *hopefully* be in the next -mm. If it gets in, it will be nice, but Linus said "not before 2.6.18" and then said (I paraphrase) "Not at all if the unwashed masses are the target audience".
I'm hoping it will get in because dwmw2 might have enough influence to get the headers properly sanitised, but I'm not holding my breath. Meanwhile, we have to cope with the current situation - personally, I'm surprised at how well the recent versions of the headers script cope with adding other headers - so far it seems to be straightforward to add things that are "no worse than linux-libc-headers" ! For the short term, the linux-headers look good, but more testers are always needed to find the myriad things that userspace assumes. Ken -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/cross-lfs FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
