linux-kernel - Re: {PATCH] fix __packed in exported kernel headers

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Message-ID: <4E04AA89.9030909@suse.cz>
Date:	Fri, 24 Jun 2011 17:17:29 +0200
From:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
To:	Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@...ppelsdorf.de>
Cc:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
	Nick Bowler <nbowler@...iptictech.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@...ia.com>
Subject: Re: {PATCH] fix __packed in exported kernel headers

On 24.6.2011 15:51, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> checkpatch.pl warns about using __attribute__((packed)) in kernel
> headers: "__packed is preferred over __attribute__((packed))". If one
> follows that advice it could cause problems in the exported header
> files, because the outside world doesn't know about this shortcut.
>
> For example busybox will fail to compile:
>   CC      miscutils/ubi_attach_detach.o
>   In file included from miscutils/ubi_attach_detach.c:27:0:
>   /usr/include/mtd/ubi-user.h:330:3: error: conflicting types for ‘__packed’
>   /usr/include/mtd/ubi-user.h:314:3: note: previous declaration of ‘__packed’ was here
> ...
>
> Fix the problem by substituting __packed with __attribute__((packed)) in
> the header_install.pl script.
>
> Cc: Artem Bityutskiy<Artem.Bityutskiy@...ia.com>
> CC: Joe Perches<joe@...ches.com>
> Signed-off-by: Markus Trippelsdorf<markus@...ppelsdorf.de>
> ---
>   scripts/headers_install.pl |    1 +
>   1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

Thanks, applied to kbuild-2.6.git#kbuild.

Michal
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