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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 17:31:28 +0200 From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> To: "Charles (Chas) Williams" <3chas3@...il.com> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, y2038@...ts.linaro.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, linux-atm-general@...ts.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/12] atm: hide 'struct zatm_t_hist' On Wednesday 30 September 2015 11:24:35 Charles Williams wrote: > On Wed, 2015-09-30 at 13:26 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > The zatm_t_hist structure is not used anywhere in the kernel, but is > > exported to user space. As we are trying to eliminate uses of time_t > > in the kernel for y2038 compatibility, the current definition triggers > > checking tools because it contains 'struct timeval'. > > > > We can work around this by adding '#ifdef __KERNEL__'. I could not find > > out what the structure is actually used for, so this is the safe choice > > in case there is some user space tool that relies on the definition. > > > > If we are sure that nothing in user space relies on the structure, we > > can instead remove the definition completely. > > It was used by the ZATM_GETHIST ioctl which is long since gone in the > kernel driver. You can just remove this. Perfect, I've updated the patch accordingly, see follow-up mail Thanks, Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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