linux-kernel - Re: [rfc] headers_check cleanups break the whole world

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Message-ID: <49A4F051.3000706@zytor.com>
Date:	Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:16:33 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Kyle McMartin <kyle@...radead.org>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@...il.com>,
	mingo@...hat.com, dwmw2@...radead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Subject: Re: [rfc] headers_check cleanups break the whole world

Kyle McMartin wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 11:08:53PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Because <linux/types.h> should work just fine once we get rid of the
>> __KERNEL_STRICT_NAMES idiocy?
>>
>> FWIW, Arnd Bergmann has been working on exactly this cleanup.
>>
> 
> Ah good, I was about to cook a patch, then I realized there's probably
> quite a mess of userspace things depending on, say, sector_t and such.
> 
> This is a pretty ugly problem, all things considered. :/
> 

Not all that bad, actually.

This is the last patch I've seen on the subject:

http://marc.info/?i=200902051707.55457.arnd@arndb.de

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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