netdev - Re: [GIT PULL -tip] fix 33 make headers

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Date:	Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:24:29 +1100
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	urs.thuermann@...kswagen.de, oliver.hartkopp@...kswagen.de,
	linux-media@...r.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org,
	netfilter@...r.kernel.org, bfields@...ldses.org, neilb@...e.de,
	linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-raid@...r.kernel.org,
	dbrownell@...rs.sourceforge.net,
	spi-devel-general@...ts.sourceforge.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	greg@...ah.com, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, dwmw2@...radead.org,
	linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, tiwai@...e.de,
	mchehab@...radead.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL -tip] fix 33 make headers_check warnings

On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 01:47:21 +0530 Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/nfsd/stats.h b/include/linux/nfsd/stats.h
> index 7678cfb..0b53cfe 100644
> --- a/include/linux/nfsd/stats.h
> +++ b/include/linux/nfsd/stats.h
> @@ -29,9 +29,11 @@ struct nfsd_stats {
>  	unsigned int	ra_size;	/* size of ra cache */
>  	unsigned int	ra_depth[11];	/* number of times ra entry was found that deep
>  					 * in the cache (10percentiles). [10] = not found */
> +#ifdef __KERNEL__
>  #ifdef CONFIG_NFSD_V4
>  	unsigned int	nfs4_opcount[LAST_NFS4_OP + 1];	/* count of individual nfsv4 operations */
>  #endif
> +#endif /* __KERNEL__ */
>  
>  };

The only variable in the kernel of type "struct nfsd_stats" is only
exported to user mode via procfs, so this whole structure could probably
go inside __KERNEL__.  Then looking harder, I wonder if this header
should be exported to user mode at all.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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