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Message-ID: <20090118101029.GA31461@uranus.ravnborg.org>
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 11:10:29 +0100
From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [GIT PULL -tip] fix 33 make headers_check warnings
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 10:13:00AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> ok, i dropped this one for the time being.
>
> Sam, Andrew, et al, i've got the commit lineup below, to fix the ~200 new
> CONFIG_HEADERS_CHECK=y warnings we have in current -git, on x86
> allyesconfig.
>
> Note that i have restructured the tree and the commits so that this effort
> can be tracked more easily: each commit has a "headers_check fix" subject
> line prefix. So you can go back later and revisit these things - for
> example whether a header really needs to be exported to user-space, via:
>
> git log --grep='headers_check fix:' --pretty=format:"%h: %s"
>
> to get an overview and a historic track record. We can follow this
> notation in the future too.
>
> So if there are no objections, i'll send this to Linus tomorrow-ish and
> we'll have the worst of the fallout behind us and can embark on a much
> more fluid (and per maintainer) headers_check related workflow.
Thanks for taking care of this Ingo and please push towards Linus.
And thanks to all the contributors too - it was great to see this dealt
with soo quickly!
Sam
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