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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	shemminger@vyatta.com, bhutchings@solarflare.com,
	andreas@fatal.se, hadi@cyberus.ca, hideaki@yoshifuji.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] xtables: make XT_ALIGN() usable in exported headers by exporting __ALIGN_KERNEL()
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:10:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BC45F1D.3030301@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100414125007.GB25686@x200>

Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 01:08:20PM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>> Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
>>> XT_ALIGN() was rewritten through ALIGN() by commit 42107f5009da223daa800d6da6904d77297ae829
>>> "netfilter: xtables: symmetric COMPAT_XT_ALIGN definition".
>>> ALIGN() is not exported in userspace headers, which created compile problem for tc(8)
>>> and will create problem for iptables(8).
>>>
>>> We can't export generic looking name ALIGN() but we can export less generic
>>> __ALIGN_KERNEL() (suggested by Ben Hutchings).
>>> Google knows nothing about __ALIGN_KERNEL().
>>>
>>> COMPAT_XT_ALIGN() changed for symmetry.
>> I've already pushed your change out, could you send me an incremental
>> fix please?
>>
>> master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kaber/nf-next-2.6.git
> 
> [PATCH] Restore __ALIGN_MASK()
> 
> Fix lib/bitmap.c compile failure due to __ALIGN_KERNEL changes.

Applied.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-13 12:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-07 16:22 [PATCH] xtables: make XT_ALIGN() usable in exported headers by exporting __ALIGN_KERNEL() Alexey Dobriyan
2010-04-13  9:22 ` Patrick McHardy
2010-04-13 10:01   ` Patrick McHardy
2010-04-13 11:06     ` [PATCH v2] " Alexey Dobriyan
2010-04-14 12:07       ` Alexey Dobriyan
2010-04-13 11:08       ` Patrick McHardy
2010-04-13 11:50         ` Alexey Dobriyan
2010-04-14 12:50           ` Alexey Dobriyan
2010-04-13 12:10           ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2010-04-13 11:50         ` Alexey Dobriyan
2010-04-13 11:06     ` Alexey Dobriyan

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