linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] documentation: build source files in Documentation sub-dir

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Date:	Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:11:53 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	sam@...nborg.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] documentation: build source files in Documentation
 sub-dir

On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:56:30 -0700 Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 9 Apr 2008 14:54:09 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> > make allmodconfig
> > gcc -I$(/bin/pwd)/include Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c -o getdelays
> > 
> > In file included from /usr/src/devel/include/linux/netlink.h:5,
> >                  from /usr/src/devel/include/linux/genetlink.h:4,
> >                  from Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c:26:
> > /usr/src/devel/include/linux/types.h:203: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before '__kernel_daddr_t'
> 
> 
> Those __kernel_* types shouldn't be used outside of the #ifdef __KERNEL__
> block, should they?
> 
> Patch below fixes kernel side for me.  Don't have any idea what it
> may do to userspace users of the header file.
> 
> ---
>  include/linux/types.h |    4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> --- mmotm-2008-0410-0157.orig/include/linux/types.h
> +++ mmotm-2008-0410-0157/include/linux/types.h
> @@ -200,8 +200,8 @@ typedef u32 resource_size_t;
>  #endif	/* __KERNEL__ */
>  
>  struct ustat {
> -	__kernel_daddr_t	f_tfree;
> -	__kernel_ino_t		f_tinode;
> +	daddr_t			f_tfree;
> +	ino_t			f_tinode;
>  	char			f_fname[6];
>  	char			f_fpack[6];
>  };

hm.

It'd be nice to know how git-x86 managed to make this happen.  I haven't
looked, apart from noting that it doesn't seem to touch any of the relevant
files.

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