Re: [PATCH -tip] x86: headers - include linux/types.h instead of asm/types.h

[Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>]

[Jaswinder Singh Rajput - Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 06:38:02PM +0530]
| On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> wrote:
| > [Cyrill Gorcunov - Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 03:09:05PM +0300]
| > | Impact: cleanup
| > |
| > | 'make headers_check' warns that linux/types.h is
| > | preferred over asm/types.h. So be it.
| > |
| > | Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
| > | CC: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
| > | CC: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
| > | CC: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
| > | ---
| > |
| > |  arch/x86/include/asm/e820.h       |    2 ++
| > |  arch/x86/include/asm/kvm.h        |    2 +-
| > |  arch/x86/include/asm/mce.h        |    2 +-
| > |  arch/x86/include/asm/mtrr.h       |    1 +
| > |  arch/x86/include/asm/ptrace-abi.h |    2 +-
| > |  arch/x86/include/asm/sigcontext.h |    2 +-
| > |  arch/x86/include/asm/swab.h       |    2 +-
| > |  7 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
| > |
| > ...
| >
| > well... on the other hand I'm not sure if it's really
| > a good idea to include linux/types.h where we need only
| > __u[8,16] and so on definitions.
| >
| > Ingo, don't apply this patch please -- have to check
| > for other ways.
| >
| 
| I am attaching usr/include/linux/types.h for your reference which
| includes all these definations for userspace.
| 
| Thanks
| --
| JSR

yeah, thanks! I already have one in my git clone but anyway ;-)

		- Cyrill -