From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758668AbZAUARB (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:17:01 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755246AbZAUAQt (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:16:49 -0500 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:37211 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757181AbZAUAQs (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:16:48 -0500 Subject: Doubts in usr/include/linux/elf.h From: Jaswinder Singh Rajput To: Ingo Molnar , x86 maintainers , LKML , Sam Ravnborg Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:46:26 +0530 Message-Id: <1232496986.3123.28.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.2 (2.24.2-3.fc10) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org usr/include/linux/elf.h is giving 4 'make headers_check' warnings: usr/include/linux/elf.h:379: extern's make no sense in userspace usr/include/linux/elf.h:387: extern's make no sense in userspace usr/include/linux/elf.h:401: extern's make no sense in userspace usr/include/linux/elf.h:402: extern's make no sense in userspace usr/include/linux/elf.h: -- #if ELF_CLASS == ELFCLASS32 extern Elf32_Dyn _DYNAMIC []; #define elfhdr elf32_hdr #define elf_phdr elf32_phdr #define elf_note elf32_note #define elf_addr_t Elf32_Off #else extern Elf64_Dyn _DYNAMIC []; #define elfhdr elf64_hdr #define elf_phdr elf64_phdr #define elf_note elf64_note #define elf_addr_t Elf64_Off #endif /* Optional callbacks to write extra ELF notes. */ #ifndef ARCH_HAVE_EXTRA_ELF_NOTES static __inline__ int elf_coredump_extra_notes_size(void) { return 0; } static __inline__ int elf_coredump_extra_notes_write(struct file *file, loff_t *foffset) { return 0; } #else extern int elf_coredump_extra_notes_size(void); extern int elf_coredump_extra_notes_write(struct file *file, loff_t *foffset); #endif -- Which things we can drop from this portion to get rid of above warnings. Thanks -- JSR