Re: [PATCH 00/13] UAPI header file split

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Friday 20 July 2012, David Howells wrote:
>      (a) It reduces the size of the kernel-only headers and obviates the need
>          for __KERNEL__ conditionals in the remnant kernel-only headers.
> 
>      (b) In what we have today, there are complex interdependencies between
>          headers that are partly exported to user space, and we want to reduce
>          those interdependencies.
> 
>          It simplifies the problem space by splitting out the user headers as
>          they then only depend only on other user headers.
> 
>      This step makes it easier to follow through with the remaining steps as
>      the remnant kernel headers can be split up without regard as to whether
>      the UAPI will be broken.  Header files such as linux/sched.h can even
>      disappear entirely if that seems convenient.
> 
>      There is another potential benefit as well: it becomes easier to track
>      when the UAPI changes just from the filenames in the GIT log.
> 
>      Further, linux-api@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx can be put into the MAINTAINERS file
>      for the uapi/ directories so that patches changing them get sent to that
>      list by everyone using get_maintainer.pl.

Looks all good to me. For the entire series:

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
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