linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] include <linux/types.h> into linux/dlm_plock.h for _

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Message-Id: <20080910.131824.244309370.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:18:24 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	kirill@...temov.name
Cc:	adobriyan@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	caulfie@...hat.com, teigland@...hat.com, dwmw2@...radead.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] include <linux/types.h> into linux/dlm_plock.h for
 __u* typedef

From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:15:13 +0300

> $ make headers_install
> ...
> $ gcc usr/include/linux/dlm_plock.h
> usr/include/linux/dlm_plock.h:25: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list
> before ‘__u32’

That's not how this file is used by real applications.
Anybody can cook up contrived cases like this.

Please show a real application or kernel compilation which breaks
because of the lack of types.h include here.