Re: [PATCH] update-linux-headers: strip endianness-aware __counted_by

[Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>]

On Sat, Nov 07 2026, Francesco Valla <francesco@valla.it> wrote:

> Deal with the endianness-aware __counted_by_be() and __counted_by_le()
> annotations in Linux headers just like with __counted_by(): stripping
> them.
>
> Signed-off-by: Francesco Valla <francesco@valla.it>
> ---
>  scripts/update-linux-headers.sh | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

For virtio-can, I guess?

>
> diff --git a/scripts/update-linux-headers.sh b/scripts/update-linux-headers.sh
> index 3c3a0e9394d2..d3f843356507 100755
> --- a/scripts/update-linux-headers.sh
> +++ b/scripts/update-linux-headers.sh
> @@ -92,6 +92,8 @@ cp_portable() {
>          -e "$arch_cmd" \
>          -e 's/__bitwise//' \
>          -e 's/__counted_by(\w*)//' \
> +        -e 's/__counted_by_be(\w*)//' \
> +        -e 's/__counted_by_le(\w*)//' \
>          -e 's/__attribute__((packed))/QEMU_PACKED/' \
>          -e 's/__inline__/inline/' \
>          -e 's/__BITS_PER_LONG/HOST_LONG_BITS/' \

Not sure if we would want to kill all the __counted_by* birds with one
stone, but let's not overthink this.

Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>