Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

> I would really like to come up with an approach to maintain this interface
> definition in the kernel source. I'm still trying to think of a
> way to do it without breaking compatibility or kernel builds.


The obvious way is to have the kernel headers include the userland
headers, then everything below that be wrapped in "#ifdef __KERNEL__". Userland then includes the normal kernel headers, but only gets the userland-safe ones.


This sounds too easy though--I'm sure I've missed something, but I can't think what....

Chris


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