linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] cred: #include init.h in cred.h

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Message-Id: <20090511154857.eacb2788.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Mon, 11 May 2009 15:48:57 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
Cc:	adobriyan@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	dhowells@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cred: #include init.h in cred.h

On Tue, 12 May 2009 08:32:31 +1000 (EST)
James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 11 May 2009, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 9 May 2009 07:36:52 +0400
> > Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > linux/cred.h can't be included as first header (alphabetical order)
> > > because it uses __init which is enough to break compilation on some
> > > archs.
> > > 
> > 
> > hm, OK, not a lot of detail there though.
> > 
> > > 
> > > --- a/include/linux/cred.h
> > > +++ b/include/linux/cred.h
> > > @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
> > >  #define _LINUX_CRED_H
> > >  
> > >  #include <linux/capability.h>
> > > +#include <linux/init.h>
> > >  #include <linux/key.h>
> > >  #include <asm/atomic.h>
> > 
> > I assume that this is needed in 2.6.30?
> > 
> 
> I can see it's in -mm, so might as well go to Linus via there.

No prob.

> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>

Thanks.

This is not the sort of patch which I'd send upstream immediately. 
cred.h is included by sched.h and sched.h doesn't include init.h. 
That's enough uncertainty to require a few days compile-testing..


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