On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 10:22:24PM -0400, Kyle Moffett wrote:
>
> On May 18, 2005, at 15:53:37, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> >Looking at the source code of MySQL, it seems MySQL does some dirty
> >tricks for using the inlines from asm/atomic.h in userspace.
> >
> >It's _really_ wrong to do this.
>
> A project that had some discussion a while ago was to clean up the
> kernel headers and separate them from the kernel-ABI ones, such that
> the ABI headers don't need to use CONFIG_* defines or anything else.
> that might be iffy.
>...
The whole kernel headers issue contains real problems that have to be
solved properly.
But in this case, this is not the problem:
What MySQL uses from asm/atomic.h doesn't seem to have anything to do
with any kind of kernel <-> userspace interface (which is what userspace
might validly require kernel headers for).
> Cheers,
> Kyle Moffett
cu
Adrian
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