Re: Continuing the UAPI split

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On Thu, Nov 07, 2019 at 01:17:50PM +0200, Elichai Turkel wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm working on a library that calls syscalls directly to the kernel.
> `make hedears_install` is a great command to auto generate the UAPI
> headers that are needed to call the kernel.
> 
> But the headers are still missing a bunch of defines for flags and structs.
> 
> I wanted to know if patches to move more things from `./include/linux`
> to `./include/uapi/linux` are welcome (obviously only
> typedefs/defines/structs that are required for the syscalls)

Yes, fixing this up to make the in-kernel headers clean enough for libc
projects to consume them directly is a very good idea and are welcome.

Note we have a bunch of ioctl structures that seem to be buried in
driver header files, those also need to get exported properly as well.

thanks,

greg k-h



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