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Message-ID: <20090117221932.GA4956@uranus.ravnborg.org>
Date:	Sat, 17 Jan 2009 23:19:32 +0100
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Cc:	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	urs.thuermann@...kswagen.de, oliver.hartkopp@...kswagen.de,
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	mchehab@...radead.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL -tip] fix 33 make headers_check warnings

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 08:37:41AM +1100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 01:47 +0530, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
> > --- a/include/linux/dvb/audio.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/dvb/audio.h
> > @@ -24,9 +24,8 @@
> >  #ifndef _DVBAUDIO_H_
> >  #define _DVBAUDIO_H_
> >  
> > -#ifdef __KERNEL__
> >  #include <linux/types.h>
> > -#else
> > +#ifndef __KERNEL__
> >  #include <stdint.h>
> >  #endif
> >  
> 
> That patch looks wrong, and unnecessary. It was fine before.
Nope - include/linux/dvb/audio.h failed to include linux/types.h
despite the fact that is uses __u32 etc.

But why the _kernel_ should include a userspace header is
much more questionable.

	Sam
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