Re: usr/include/linux/soundcard.h warnings for 'make headers_check'

Takashi Iwai
2009-01-21T00:08:49Z

At Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:08:22 +0530,
Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
>
> usr/include/linux/soundcard.h is giving following warnings for 'make headers_check':
> usr/include/linux/soundcard.h:1047: extern's make no sense in userspace
> usr/include/linux/soundcard.h:1048: extern's make no sense in userspace
> usr/include/linux/soundcard.h:1049: extern's make no sense in userspace
> usr/include/linux/soundcard.h:1050: extern's make no sense in userspace
> usr/include/linux/soundcard.h:1051: extern's make no sense in userspace
> usr/include/linux/soundcard.h:1053: extern's make no sense in userspace
> usr/include/linux/soundcard.h:1055: extern's make no sense in userspace
> usr/include/linux/soundcard.h:1056: extern's make no sense in userspace
> usr/include/linux/soundcard.h:1061: extern's make no sense in userspace
> usr/include/linux/soundcard.h:1062: extern's make no sense in userspace
> usr/include/linux/soundcard.h:1078: extern's make no sense in userspace
> usr/include/linux/soundcard.h:1079: extern's make no sense in userspace
>
> Do we need to fix these warnings.

No, these are declarations for OSS-lib.
It doesn't belong to kernel, but it's better to keep it for
compatibility in some way.

Takashi