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Message-ID: <20070828170604.GA31284@uranus.ravnborg.org>
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:06:04 +0200
From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>,
Gabriel C <nix.or.die@...glemail.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Olaf Hering <olh@...e.de>,
netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [-mm patch] make types.h usable for non-gcc C parsers
>
> It fixes a bug exposed by a -mm only patch, not by the net tree
> (and 2.6.23-rc3-mm1 doesn't contain the net tree at all).
>
> > But I'd like a better description, please. Which "non-gcc parser" are we
> > talking about here? Something under ./scripts/. Well, please identify it,
> > and describe what the problem is, and how the proposed patch will address
> > it.
> >...
>
> It's about parsers like the Sun C compiler and the C parser shipped
> with genksyms.
So it is about two bugs.
1) kbuild (genksyms) fails to generate CRC for some symbols
2) allow userspace to parse the header
As for 2 we already use sed to remove a lot of stuff in our headers
so why do we use another approach here?
As for 1 I will try to teach genksyms to accept __extension__ but
it seems leess trivial than I expected (most be fooling myself somehow).
Sam
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