linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Fix make headers

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Message-Id: <20071031.161630.207675833.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:16:30 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	davej@...hat.com
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, per.liden@...csson.com,
	jon.maloy@...csson.com, allan.stephens@...driver.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix make headers_check for tipc

From: Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:29:32 -0400

> make headers_check currently fails in mainline with..
> 
> include/linux/tipc_config.h requires linux/string.h, which does not exist in exported headers
> 
> There's no reason to even include this in this header as far as I can tell.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>

It uses memcpy() in the inline routines which are in fact used by both
userspace and the kernel.  The change you are suggesting will also
break the TIPC kernel build.

A proper fix has been merged into Linus's tree already.
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