linux-kernel - Re: [PULL -tip] fixed few make headers

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0901140954250.27308@anakin>
Date:	Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:56:31 +0100 (CET)
From:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...radead.org>
cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PULL -tip] fixed few make headers_check warnings

On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
> Please pull these patches. Earlier I also floated these patches so that I can get some feedback.
> 
> The following changes since commit ae2659bcd0b5bf34dd4b03f1db0a2942cc09b8e6:
>   Ingo Molnar (1):
>         Merge branch 'x86/mm'
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
> 
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaswinder/linux-2.6-tiptop.git master
> 
> Jaswinder Singh Rajput (7):
>       include of <linux/types.h> is preferred over <asm/types.h>
>       found __[us]{8,16,32,64} type without #include <linux/types.h>
>       capability.h: extern's make no sense in userspace
>       coda_psdev.h: extern's make no sense in userspace
>       in6.h: extern's make no sense in userspace
>       nubus.h: extern's make no sense in userspace
>       socket.h: extern's make no sense in userspace

May I please remind you of my comment in
http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/2093/?

At least nubus.h still leaks forward declarations for kernel functions that
lack the "extern" keyword, so they still pollute user space.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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