linux-kernel - Re: [git-pull -tip] fix headers

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Date:	Mon, 02 Feb 2009 09:49:14 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org>
CC:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	reiserfs-devel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [git-pull -tip] fix headers_check warnings

Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
>>
>> Hi Jaswinder,
>>
>> it seems we have a clash here :) I thought this part
>> was just dropped out
>>
>> 	http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/1/14/461
>>
>> and Peter had been applying it on tip:x86/header-fixes
>>
>> 	http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/1/14/549
>>
>> but maybe it's just lost...
> 
> No, you cannot remove sys_arch_prctl otherwise you will get sparse
> warning like this:
> 
>   CHECK   arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
> arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c:833:6: warning: symbol 'sys_arch_prctl' was not declared. Should it be static?
> 

Perhaps we can just move this prototype to <asm/syscalls.h>.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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