linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -tip] x86: headers - include linux/types.h instead of asm/types.h

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Date:	Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:38:02 +0530
From:	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderlinux@...il.com>
To:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip] x86: headers - include linux/types.h instead of 
	asm/types.h

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com> wrote:
> [Cyrill Gorcunov - Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 03:09:05PM +0300]
> | Impact: cleanup
> |
> | 'make headers_check' warns that linux/types.h is
> | preferred over asm/types.h. So be it.
> |
> | Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>
> | CC: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@...il.com>
> | CC: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
> | CC: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com>
> | ---
> |
> |  arch/x86/include/asm/e820.h       |    2 ++
> |  arch/x86/include/asm/kvm.h        |    2 +-
> |  arch/x86/include/asm/mce.h        |    2 +-
> |  arch/x86/include/asm/mtrr.h       |    1 +
> |  arch/x86/include/asm/ptrace-abi.h |    2 +-
> |  arch/x86/include/asm/sigcontext.h |    2 +-
> |  arch/x86/include/asm/swab.h       |    2 +-
> |  7 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> |
> ...
>
> well... on the other hand I'm not sure if it's really
> a good idea to include linux/types.h where we need only
> __u[8,16] and so on definitions.
>
> Ingo, don't apply this patch please -- have to check
> for other ways.
>

I am attaching usr/include/linux/types.h for your reference which
includes all these definations for userspace.

Thanks
--
JSR

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