puzzled by a couple things related to "uapi"

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 25 Oct 2012, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Robert P. J. Day

> >   ok, so far, so good.  but then there's this in
> > include/uapi/linux/coda.h:
> >
> > ... snip ...
> > #ifdef KERNEL                    <--- ?????
> > typedef unsigned long u_long;
> > typedef unsigned int u_int;
> > typedef unsigned short u_short;
> > typedef u_long ino_t;
> > typedef u_long dev_t;
> > typedef void * caddr_t;
> > ... snip ...
>
> Interesting, not sure. David ? I do see some BSD'ish deps there  (#if
> defined(__NetBSD__))... so not sure if that was left to them or what.
>
> >   why is there still kernel-only content in the uapi/ directory?
> > maybe i just don't understand the rationale for what's going on here.
>
> No, I'm as puzzled.

  there's quite a lot of that sort of thing ... i just did this for
the heck of it:

$ cd include/uapi
$ grep -r "if.*KERNEL" *

and you can see for yourself.

  and i'm still unclear on what the point of "make headers_install" is
anymore, since it does still exist and appears to do much of what it
did before.  doesn't the whole idea of uapi make that target obsolete?

rday

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