linux-kernel - Re: linux/a.out.h is not exported to userspace

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Date:	Fri, 23 May 2008 09:02:42 -0700
From:	Khem Raj <raj.khem@...il.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	k.shutemov@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux/a.out.h is not exported to userspace

On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 00:32 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

> 
> This breaks `make headerscheck' on s390:
> 
> /usr/src/devel/usr/include/linux/a.out.h requires asm/a.out.h, which does not exist in exported headers
> 
> which might be an s390 problem.

There was also this patch that David proposed here

http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/18/46

this patch also takes care of the architectures that do not have
asm/a.out.h. I tried this patch on s390 and arm one with and one without
asm/a.out.h

Thanks

-Khem



diff --git a/include/linux/Kbuild b/include/linux/Kbuild
index 93b9885..b6fbb25 100644
--- a/include/linux/Kbuild
+++ b/include/linux/Kbuild
@@ -166,6 +166,9 @@ unifdef-y += acct.h
 unifdef-y += adb.h
 unifdef-y += adfs_fs.h
 unifdef-y += agpgart.h
+ifeq ($(wildcard include/asm-$(SRCARCH)/a.out.h),include/asm-$(SRCARCH)/a.out.h)
+unifdef-y += a.out.h
+endif
 unifdef-y += apm_bios.h
 unifdef-y += atalk.h
 unifdef-y += atmdev.h


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