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From: Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] usb-linux.c: #define __user to work around broken Linux headers
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:41:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080828204114.GD3229@networkno.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48B70534.40103@codemonkey.ws>

Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Ian Jackson wrote:
>> Really we would like to #include <linux/compiler.h> but according
>> to changelogs in xen-unstable, at least FC6R3 doesn't have it.
>>
>> So instead we do this: we  #define __user  ourselves, which is
>> what <linux/compiler.h> does on systems which are not broken.
>>
>> (This change is identical to xen-unstable
>>  11601:ba7487569374378b398a1b134ea108a6a8209b4b.
>>  and qemu-xen 1f153e0706851b43bb5c2083e531fd7b64b75be1.)
>>   
>
> This was applied at one point in time, but then reverted IIRC.  I think  
> Fabrice objected?

It was rejected because distros should fix their broken headers instead.


Thiemo

  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-28 20:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-28 16:24 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] usb-linux.c: #define __user to work around broken Linux headers Ian Jackson
2008-08-28 20:06 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-08-28 20:41   ` Thiemo Seufer [this message]
2008-08-28 20:49     ` Anthony Liguori
2008-08-29  9:47     ` Ian Jackson
2008-09-07  2:50       ` Anthony Liguori

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