linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Remove #ifdef CONFIG_64BIT from all asm-generic/fcntl.h

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Date:	Thu, 10 Sep 2015 12:18:05 +0100
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove #ifdef CONFIG_64BIT from all asm-generic/fcntl.h

David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> wrote:

> Rather than iterating through all the rest of your patches and saying the same
> thing, if there's something in a UAPI header that needs wrapping in __KERNEL__
> to exclude it from userspace's use, then it should be transferred to the
> non-UAPI variant of that header (which should #include the UAPI variant).

I should mention that there is the odd case where this is difficult to
achieve.  See include/uapi/linux/acct.h for an example...

David
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