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From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] UIO: mark uio.h functions __KERNEL__ only
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:54:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090728195431.GA20914@merkur.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1248810094-30094-1-git-send-email-jirislaby@gmail.com>

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 09:41:34PM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> To avoid userspace build failures such as:
> .../linux/uio.h:37: error: expected ???=???, ???,???, ???;???, ???asm??? or ???__attribute__??? before ???iov_length???
> .../linux/uio.h:47: error: expected declaration specifiers or ???...??? before ???size_t???
> move uio functions inside a __KERNEL__ block.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/uio.h |    2 ++
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/uio.h b/include/linux/uio.h
> index b7fe138..693c149 100644
> --- a/include/linux/uio.h
> +++ b/include/linux/uio.h
> @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ struct kvec {
>  #define UIO_FASTIOV	8
>  #define UIO_MAXIOV	1024
>  
> +#ifdef __KERNEL__
>  /*
>   * Total number of bytes covered by an iovec.
>   *
> @@ -53,5 +54,6 @@ static inline size_t iov_length(const struct iovec *iov, unsigned long nr_segs)
>  }
>  
>  unsigned long iov_shorten(struct iovec *iov, unsigned long nr_segs, size_t to);
> +#endif
>  
>  #endif

Can we get this fixed up so we have a single #ifdef __KERNEL__ block?
It would be prettier, and nothing the in non-kernel part would rely
on the kernel part so you can put the kernel part in the bottom of
the file.

	Sam

  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-28 19:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-28 13:14 [PATCH 1/1] UIO: unbreak uio.h userspace compilation Jiri Slaby
2009-07-28 19:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-07-28 19:41   ` [PATCH 1/1] UIO: mark uio.h functions __KERNEL__ only Jiri Slaby
2009-07-28 19:54     ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2009-07-28 20:05       ` [PATCH v3 " Jiri Slaby
2009-07-28 20:21         ` Sam Ravnborg

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