linux-kernel - Re: tipc_config.h requires linux/string.h, which does not exist in exported headers

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Message-ID: <20071031094626.GC24100@uranus.ravnborg.org>
Date:	Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:46:26 +0100
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	raa.lkml@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	per.liden@...csson.com, allan.stephens@...driver.com
Subject: Re: tipc_config.h requires linux/string.h, which does not exist in exported headers

> 
> Here is what I mean, specifically.  And this is build tested :-)
> 
> From 97ef1bb0c8e371b7988287f38bd107c4aa14d78d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: David S. Miller <davem@...set.davemloft.net>
> Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:44:00 -0700
> Subject: [PATCH] [TIPC]: Fix headercheck wrt. tipc_config.h
> 
> It wants string functions like memcpy() for inline
> routines, and these define userland interfaces.
> 
> The only clean way to deal with this is to simply
> put linux/string.h into unifdef-y and have it
> include <string.h> when not-__KERNEL__.

Hi David.

Thanks for fixing this.
I will close the bug when the correcting hit mainline.

	Sam
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