linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] headers_check: special case seqbuf

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Message-Id: <201401151428.42113.arnd@arndb.de>
Date:	Wed, 15 Jan 2014 14:28:41 +0100
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
Cc:	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] headers_check: special case seqbuf_dump()

On Wednesday 15 January 2014, Paul Bolle wrote:
> "make headers_check" warns about soundcard.h for (at least) five years
> now:
>     [...]/usr/include/linux/soundcard.h:1054: userspace cannot reference function or variable defined in the kernel
> 
> We're apparently stuck with providing OSSlib-3.8 compatibility, so let's
> special case this declaration just to silence it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>

Thanks so much! This one has been bugging me for ages.

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

Who would be the right person to apply this? Adding Andrew and Michal
to Cc.
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