linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] headers_check.pl: disallow extern's

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Message-Id: <200812290515.09121.vapier@gentoo.org>
Date:	Mon, 29 Dec 2008 05:15:08 -0500
From:	Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] headers_check.pl: disallow extern's

On Saturday 27 December 2008 13:54:15 Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > And we need to get these fixed before we apply this patch.
> > Otherwise we will break every allyesconfig/allmodconfig builds
>
> I turned them into warnings for now.
> And when I was there I fixed the TODO:
>
> From 2bbc376f97c4a75fbbb603b34f73db235a8cd2c1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
> Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 19:52:20 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] kbuild: check for leaked CONFIG_ symbols to userspace

btw, do you maintain these in a git tree somewhere, or you just posting them 
to lkml ?  the two kbuild trees under your name on kernel.org/git seems to be 
lacking this change.  i was looking at adding another check: barf if the 
header uses __[us]{8,16,32,64} types but does not include linux/types.h.
-mike

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