Re: Recent changes to sysctl.h breaks glibc

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
Tue, 20 May 2003 22:38:05 -0700


Martin Schlemmer wrote:
>
> The only issue that we might have, is that <linux/abi/*> will once
> again break many things. Sure, if we have to fix them once to get
> this fixed for good, why not.
>
> On the other hand, why not leave it at <linux/*.h> and <asm/*.h>
> as the location of the ABI, and then move all kernel only
> related stuff to <kernel/*.h> (or whatever, just the concept which
> count ...) which can then include whatever it needs form the other
> places (linux/asm)?
>

Because then there will be a push to be backward compatible, and the
current structure is hideously poor for this purpose.

-hpa

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