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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: zijun_hu <zijun_hu@zoho.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH 1/1] bitops.h: move out get_count_order[_long]() from __KERNEL__ scope
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 01:28:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160818002808.GK2356@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0ba55ab9-eae7-d50f-1b45-c6714e094b03@zoho.com>

On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 08:10:19AM +0800, zijun_hu wrote:

> Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt:
> The kernel includes a set of headers that is exported to userspace.
> Many headers can be exported as-is but other headers require a
> minimal pre-processing before they are ready for user-space.
> The pre-processing does:
> - drop kernel-specific annotations
> - drop include of compiler.h
> - drop all sections that are kernel internal (guarded by ifdef __KERNEL__)
> 
> scripts/Makefile.headersinst:
> # ==========================================================================
> # Installing headers
> #
> # header-y  - list files to be installed. They are preprocessed
> #             to remove __KERNEL__ section of the file
> # genhdr-y  - Same as header-y but in a generated/ directory

Quite.  Now, could you show me where bitops.h is mentioned in any header-y
assignments?

Stuff outside of */uapi/* is not exported at all.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-18  0:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-16  6:27 [PATCH 1/1] bitops.h: move out get_count_order[_long]() from __KERNEL__ scope zijun_hu
2016-08-16  6:50 ` Stephen Rothwell
2016-08-16  7:24   ` zijun_hu
2016-08-16  7:46 ` [RESEND PATCH " zijun_hu
2016-08-17 17:20   ` Al Viro
2016-08-17 23:51     ` zijun_hu
2016-08-17 23:59       ` Al Viro
2016-08-18  0:10         ` zijun_hu
2016-08-18  0:28           ` Al Viro [this message]
2016-08-18  0:50             ` zijun_hu

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