From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86 byteorder.h: use __asm__/__inline__ for userspace
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 02:55:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200812270255.47013.vapier@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081227071208.GB27736@uranus.ravnborg.org>
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On Saturday 27 December 2008 02:12:08 Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 01:50:04AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > Use __asm__/__inline__ rather than asm/inline for all the functions
> > exported to userspace.
>
> I will imagine that we will see cleanup patches converting
> these back to inline/asm.
> How about doing this conversion as part of the headers_install.pl
> script so we know it is always correct?
>
> Then we can keep the familiar inline/asm in the kernel headers
> and always use the correct __asm__, __inline__ version for our
> exported headers.
yeah, i think these kind of "fixes" went in between 2.6.27 and 2.6.28 because
there's a lot more hits on "inline" than there were previously ...
-mike
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Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-27 6:50 [PATCH] x86 byteorder.h: use __asm__/__inline__ for userspace Mike Frysinger
2008-12-27 7:12 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-12-27 7:55 ` Mike Frysinger [this message]
2008-12-27 8:47 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-12-27 9:21 ` Mike Frysinger
2008-12-27 18:57 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-12-27 18:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-12-27 19:12 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-12-27 19:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-12-27 19:21 ` Mike Frysinger
2008-12-27 19:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-12-27 20:05 ` Mike Frysinger
2008-12-27 20:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-12-27 20:57 ` Mike Frysinger
2008-12-27 21:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-12-27 21:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-12-29 11:56 ` Mike Frysinger
2008-12-29 17:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-12-27 19:24 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-12-27 19:24 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-12-29 11:12 ` [PATCH] kbuild: auto-convert size types in userspace headers Mike Frysinger
2008-12-29 14:03 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-12-29 20:34 ` Mike Frysinger
2008-12-29 20:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-12-29 22:04 ` Mike Frysinger
2008-12-29 23:35 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-12-30 10:43 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-12-30 17:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-18 20:53 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-01-07 16:44 ` [PATCH] x86 byteorder.h: use __asm__/__inline__ for userspace David Woodhouse
2008-12-27 21:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-12-28 22:35 ` Marcin Slusarz
2008-12-28 23:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
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