On Fri, 27 May 2016, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 12:08:09PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> > continuing down this road of exporting kernel headers, under
> > include/uapi/ (and mostly further under linux/), there's still a *ton*
> > of testing of the __KERNEL__ preprocessor check.
> >
> > now, i realize that when one does "make headers_install", all those
> > files are run through "unifdef" to sanitize almost all of that kernel
> > content, so it's not like it hurts, but is there any reason so much of
> > it is still there? wouldn't it be tidier to get rid of it?
>
> No, because not all of the information in those .h files should be
> exported to userspace. You could either split the files all up into
> two different ones, or just live with the existing infrastructure we
> have. We chose the easy one :)
ok, i think i see *part* of my misunderstanding so let me back up a
bit ... are any of the header files *directly* under include/linux
processed for exporting? because there is no file
include/linux/Kbuild, which i assume needs to exist for that to
happen.
rday
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