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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>,
	Jessica Yu <jeyu@redhat.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] taint/module: Fix problems when out-of-kernel driver defines true or false
Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2017 21:50:33 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170102055032.GA6801@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170102022525.29661-1-Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>

On Sun, Jan 01, 2017 at 08:25:25PM -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
> Commit 7fd8329ba502 ("taint/module: Clean up global and module taint
> flags handling") used the key words true and false as character members
> of a new struct. These names cause problems when out-of-kernel modules
> such as VirtualBox include their own definitions of true and false.

Whuch they should not define, so fix them, just like you;d fix them for
everything else that would conflict with something in kernel headers.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-02  5:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-02  2:25 [PATCH] taint/module: Fix problems when out-of-kernel driver defines true or false Larry Finger
2017-01-02  5:50 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2017-01-02 10:51 ` Petr Mladek
2017-01-04  3:08 ` Jessica Yu
     [not found]   ` <CAP71bdULb5BReYmouqE7CLX3uS=3EdD0t46Wp_uGAFD+hxRRYA@mail.gmail.com>
2017-01-17 17:55     ` Jessica Yu

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