linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Adding hyperv.h to uapi headers

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Date:	Sat, 18 Jan 2014 23:24:53 +0100
From:	Bjarke Istrup Pedersen <gurligebis@...too.org>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>,
	"K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@...rosoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Adding hyperv.h to uapi headers

2014/1/18 Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>:
> On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 11:07:10PM +0100, Bjarke Istrup Pedersen wrote:
>> I have been thinking about other solutions, but so far, I haven't been
>> able to find one that solves it, so the tools build. (An option might
>> be to strip it from the __KERNEL__ part, to make it smaller, but I
>> don't know what difference that would make :-)
>
> The fix is to move the userspace stuff into the uapi header and include
> that header in the kernel header.
>
> See include/linux/sched.h and many others for an example.
>
Okay, so let me see if I get this right.

I should take all the parts the is not guarded by __KERNEL__, and move
them to a uapi header, and then include it at the top of the normal
header.
Correct understood? :)

/Bjarke
> --
> Regards/Gruss,
>     Boris.
>
> Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine.
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