linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Decouple build from userspace headers

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Message-ID: <YO8JPuay5e3wz//n@infradead.org>
Date:   Wed, 14 Jul 2021 16:56:46 +0100
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, arnd@...db.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Decouple build from userspace headers

On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 06:54:08PM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 03:22:08PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > -#define signals_blocked false
> > > +#define signals_blocked 0
> > 
> > Why can't we get at the kernel definition of false here?
> 
> Variable and other code surrounding this wants "int".
> I don't really want to expand into bool conversion.

Maybe split this into a separate prep patch then.