sys/soundcard.h and sys/ultrasound.h needed ?

Andreas Jaeger aj@suse.de
Thu Jul 27 04:03:00 GMT 2000


>>>>> Jakub Jelinek writes:

 > On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 11:16:38AM +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>> 
>> Going through the linux header files glibc still uses, I noticed
>> sys/soundcard.h and sys/ultrasound.h which only include kernel
>> headers.  Are those needed for any ABI or whatever?  I propose to
>> remove them completly.

 > I'd vote for another solution: shouldn't we just get rid of
 > all <asm/ and <linux/ includes in the exported /usr/include glibc headers?
 > If I count well, there are 35 of them at the moment on i386.
 > I think glibc should only use kernel headers in its private non-exported
 > headers.
 > What do others think? It would also make Linus happy among other things.
 > If there is some agreement, I'll try to devote some afternoon to it...

I'm currently working on a proposal for this - give me some time to
finish my email ;-).

Andreas
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