linux-kernel - Re: Can we get warnings from the x86 userspace headers fixed?

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Message-ID: <20090112214420.GE13384@localhost>
Date:	Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:44:20 +0300
From:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Can we get warnings from the x86 userspace headers fixed?

[Ingo Molnar - Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:37:19PM +0100]
| 
| * Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com> wrote:
| 
| > On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 22:28 +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
| > > Hi Ingo.
| > > 
| > > We have recently introduced a lot of new warnings for our
| > > userspace headers.
| > > 
| > > Try to do a "make headers_check" and enjoy...
| > > 
| > > Are there any chance you could ask one of your helpers to
| > > start to look into the x86 specific ones?
| > > 
| > > If we get x86 clean this would create more incentive to
| > > make the generic clean too.
| > > 
| > > I had originally planned to attack the generic headers
| > > (include/linux/*) but I'm faced by reality after my
| > > vacation and has almost no spare time for the time being.
| > > 
| > > I already fixed the sparc headers but that is not 
| > > visible compared to x86 (the fixes was btw easy).
| > > 
| > > I can try to help by doing a few reviews in the
| > > beginning but I need to fix kbuild stuff first where
| > > I have a few serious issues pending. And lacks time...
| > > 
| > 
| > I'll have a go at some of them this afternoon unless someone beats me to 
| > it.
| 
| thanks Harvey! Please work against tip/master if you do that, there's a 
| few header file changes in the queue already.
| 
| 	Ingo
| 

hmm... what I've got:

---
cyrill@...ovo linux-2.6.git $ make headers_check
  CHK     include/linux/version.h
make[1]: `scripts/unifdef' is up to date.
cyrill@...ovo linux-2.6.git $ 
---

I don't know what to think...

		- Cyrill -
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