On Thu, 2017-04-20 at 16:07 -0400, David Miller wrote: > > I think I have to put the brakes on this patch series, after much > consideration. > > It does not scale if we continually add a hodge-podge of different > ifdef tests to the UAPI headers in order to prevent mutliple > definitions. > > We will add that IFF_ECHO ifdef for MUSL libc today, and for another > libc we will add another such hack. And so on and so forth... > > Instead, LIBC implementation must adopt the ifdef protections which > have standard names and are being adopted by GLIBC and hopefully > others.
I agree, except I don't think you're going far enough. Those "standard names" you mention... some of this stuff actually depends on __GLIBC__, and *that* isn't right either. I tried to kill that off completely and make the kernel entirely agnostic, in https://marc.info/?l=linux-api&m=148898383805658&w=2
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