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

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Date:	Fri, 6 Feb 2009 18:40:45 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc:	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	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


* Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org> wrote:

> > 
> > Is this safe OR we can make it more safer:
> > 
> > Subject: [PATCH] make linux/types.h as assembly safe
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@...il.com>
> > ---
> >  include/linux/types.h |    3 ++-
> >  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/include/linux/types.h b/include/linux/types.h
> > index 712ca53..c30973a 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/types.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/types.h
> > @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
> >  #ifndef _LINUX_TYPES_H
> >  #define _LINUX_TYPES_H
> >  
> > +#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
> >  #ifdef	__KERNEL__
> >  
> >  #define DECLARE_BITMAP(name,bits) \
> > @@ -212,5 +213,5 @@ struct ustat {
> >  };
> >  
> >  #endif	/* __KERNEL__ */
> > -
> > +#endif /*  __ASSEMBLY__ */
> >  #endif /* _LINUX_TYPES_H */
> 
> This is wrong...
> We should include the assumed assembly safe asm/types.h
> outside the __ASEMBLY__ ifdef.

agreed ...

	Ingo
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