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

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Date:   Wed, 14 Jul 2021 20:16:56 +0300
From:   Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:     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 04:56:46PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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.

And get accused of KPI padding? :-)