Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC 03/23] include: import FreeBSD headers for evtchn and privcmd devices

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2014-04-22 at 16:35 +0200, Roger Pau Monnà wrote:
> On 17/04/14 18:16, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Roger Pau Monne writes ("[PATCH RFC 03/23] include: import FreeBSD headers 
> > for evtchn and privcmd devices"):
> >> Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monnà <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Cc: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Is it usual, then in the FreeBSD world, for an application program to
> > take a copy of kernel headers defining ioctls etc. ?  This seems
> > surprising to me.  It would seem more sensible for the application to
> > use the headers installed on the build host.

Normally such headers come from the libc rather than the kernel
directly. We could upstream our ioctl definitions into glibc I suppose.

Ian.


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