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Message-ID: <20080424160101.GA18854@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi>
Date:	Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:01:01 +0300
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
To:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Fix non-kernel use of include/linux/types.h

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 01:14:38AM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> In file included from ../../include/linux/if_tun.h:21,
>                  from lguest.c:30:
> ../../include/linux/types.h:203: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘__kernel_daddr_t’
> 
> This reversion was created by e40c0fe6b0b5dd16aec3c0dad311d36b19d78fd9
> 'x86: cleanup duplicate includes' which removed the !__KERNEL__ case from
> asm-x86/posix_types.h.

I'd actually prefer my patch [1] that:
- reverts to the 2.6.24 status quo since we shouldn't leak CONFIG_* to
  userspace at all and
- also fixes the same regression in unistd.h

> CC: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
> ---
>  include/asm-x86/posix_types.h |   10 ++++------
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff -r c06e2499a606 include/asm-x86/posix_types.h
> --- a/include/asm-x86/posix_types.h	Tue Apr 22 07:59:24 2008 +1000
> +++ b/include/asm-x86/posix_types.h	Tue Apr 22 08:59:18 2008 +1000
> @@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
> -#ifdef __KERNEL__
> -# if defined(CONFIG_X86_32) || defined(__i386__)
> -#  include "posix_types_32.h"
> -# else
> -#  include "posix_types_64.h"
> -# endif
> +#if defined(CONFIG_X86_32) || defined(__i386__)
> +# include "posix_types_32.h"
> +#else
> +# include "posix_types_64.h"
>  #endif

cu
Adrian

[1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/20/181

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