linux-kernel - Re: [git pull -tip] headers_check fixes for other architectures

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Date:	Thu, 5 Feb 2009 11:06:54 -0800 (PST)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
cc:	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	hskinnemoen@...el.com, cooloney@...nel.org, ralf@...ux-mips.org,
	dhowells@...hat.com, matthew@....cx, chris@...kel.net,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [git pull -tip] headers_check fixes for other architectures



On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Tony Luck wrote:
> 
> Either revert this part ... or wrap the #include like this in fpu.h:
> 
> #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
> #include <linux/types.h>
> #endif

That loses the

	arch/ia64/include/asm/types.h:# define __IA64_UL(x)             (x)

thing from <asm/types.h>, and makes some of the constants unusable from 
asm. Maybe nobody cares.

But it looks like that core really needs to use <asm/types.h> right now.

		Linus
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