Re: Recent changes to sysctl.h breaks glibc

[H. Peter Anvin]

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