netdev - Re: [2.6 patch] process include/linux/if

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Date:	Wed, 24 Jan 2007 11:20:44 +0100
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] process include/linux/if_{addr,link}.h with unifdef

On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 10:05:17PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
> Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 20:13:19 +0100
> 
> > After commit d3dcc077bf88806201093f86325ec656e4dbfbce, 
> > include/linux/if_{addr,link}.h should be processed with unifdef.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
> 
> Applied, thanks Adrian.
> 
> I believe at least the 2.6.19 -stable branch will need
> this too, right?  Please submit to -stable as needed,
> and feel free to add my sign-off:
> 
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>

All my patch does is to remove "#ifndef __KERNEL__"'s around userspace 
#define's from the userspace headers, so it's purely cosmetical.

Except when userspace wrongly defines __KERNEL__, no 
header-y<->unifdef-y should ever have any non-cosmetical effect.

That said, we really want what I called "cosmetical" - not having
"#if{,n}def __KERNEL__" in any userspace headers - it's simply that this 
is not a serious bug.

cu
Adrian

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