linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/5] uml: Fix warning due to missing task

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Date:	Tue, 20 Apr 2010 10:30:16 -0400
From:	Jeff Dike <jdike@...toit.com>
To:	Amerigo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
Cc:	Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@....de>, trivial@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	user-mode-linux-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] uml: Fix warning due to missing task_struct
	declaration

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 06:09:49PM +0800, Amerigo Wang wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 11:53:06PM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> >We can't pull in linux/sched.h, so just declare the struct.
> >
> 
> Did you meet any build error? If yes, please include it.

What does this patch fix, aside from being a bit cleaner?

If it built before, without having a task_struct declaration, I think
that means that the elf_core_copy_fpregs was never used.  The
task_struct * in the declaration would become a private task_struct,
known only to the declaration.  If the implementation or callers have
the regular task_struct, it will be a different one, and the
prototypes will conflict due to the different types of the first
parameter.

			Jeff

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