linux-kernel - Doubts in usr/include/linux/elf.h

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Message-Id: <1232496986.3123.28.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:46:26 +0530
From:	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Subject: Doubts in usr/include/linux/elf.h

usr/include/linux/elf.h is giving 4 'make headers_check' warnings:
 usr/include/linux/elf.h:379: extern's make no sense in userspace
 usr/include/linux/elf.h:387: extern's make no sense in userspace
 usr/include/linux/elf.h:401: extern's make no sense in userspace
 usr/include/linux/elf.h:402: extern's make no sense in userspace


usr/include/linux/elf.h:
--
#if ELF_CLASS == ELFCLASS32

extern Elf32_Dyn _DYNAMIC [];
#define elfhdr          elf32_hdr
#define elf_phdr        elf32_phdr
#define elf_note        elf32_note
#define elf_addr_t      Elf32_Off

#else

extern Elf64_Dyn _DYNAMIC [];
#define elfhdr          elf64_hdr
#define elf_phdr        elf64_phdr
#define elf_note        elf64_note
#define elf_addr_t      Elf64_Off

#endif

/* Optional callbacks to write extra ELF notes. */
#ifndef ARCH_HAVE_EXTRA_ELF_NOTES
static __inline__ int elf_coredump_extra_notes_size(void) { return 0; }
static __inline__ int elf_coredump_extra_notes_write(struct file *file,
                        loff_t *foffset) { return 0; }
#else
extern int elf_coredump_extra_notes_size(void);
extern int elf_coredump_extra_notes_write(struct file *file, loff_t *foffset);
#endif
--

Which things we can drop from this portion to get rid of above warnings.

Thanks

--
JSR

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