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Message-ID: <3f9a31f40901140129i1389f47frf32808f3a695a118@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:59:54 +0530
From:	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderlinux@...il.com>
To:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PULL -tip] fixed few make headers_check warnings

Hello Geert,

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven
<geert@...ux-m68k.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
>> Please pull these patches. Earlier I also floated these patches so that I can get some feedback.
>>
>> The following changes since commit ae2659bcd0b5bf34dd4b03f1db0a2942cc09b8e6:
>>   Ingo Molnar (1):
>>         Merge branch 'x86/mm'
>>
>> are available in the git repository at:
>>
>>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaswinder/linux-2.6-tiptop.git master
>>
>> Jaswinder Singh Rajput (7):
>>       include of <linux/types.h> is preferred over <asm/types.h>
>>       found __[us]{8,16,32,64} type without #include <linux/types.h>
>>       capability.h: extern's make no sense in userspace
>>       coda_psdev.h: extern's make no sense in userspace
>>       in6.h: extern's make no sense in userspace
>>       nubus.h: extern's make no sense in userspace
>>       socket.h: extern's make no sense in userspace
>
> May I please remind you of my comment in
> http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/2093/?
>

Thanks for your reminder :-)

> At least nubus.h still leaks forward declarations for kernel functions that
> lack the "extern" keyword, so they still pollute user space.
>

Yes, you are right, I just tried to pampered weeping warning messages
which is annoying.

In this subset, I just try to fix 77 such warnings.

nubus.h still have such warnings and other fixes required which you
are pointing so I am expecting nubus people will solve such problems.

Thanks
--
JSR
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