netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] ethtool.h: define DIV_ROUND

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Date:	Tue, 01 Mar 2016 14:48:26 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ben@...adent.org.uk
Cc:	nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com, kan.liang@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] ethtool.h: define DIV_ROUND_UP for userland

From: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2016 17:14:06 +0000

> On Tue, 2016-03-01 at 11:42 -0500, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
>> Date: Tue,  1 Mar 2016 16:20:41 +0100
>> 
>> > DIV_ROUND_UP and is defined in linux/kernel.h only for the kernel. INT_MAX
>> > needs limits.h in userland.
>> 
>> It is wrong to provide a definition of this in the user visible global
>> namespace.
> 
> Which is why he's not doing that...

No, that's exactly what he's doing:

+#ifndef __KERNEL__
+#include <limits.h> /* for INT_MAX */
+#define DIV_ROUND_UP(n, d) (((n) + (d) - 1) / (d))
+#endif

in a uapi header file.

"If not kernel, define DEV_ROUND_UP"