Re: [git pull -tip] headers_check fixes for other architectures

[Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>]

On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 20:19 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> Jaswinder, because they can break the build we should proactively drop all 
> architecture patches that do asm/types.h conversions.
> 
> I did build all the affected architectures via their defconfigs and they 
> built just fine - but i cannot do wide coverage testing of them.
> 
> So i think we should drop these bits:
> 
>  earth4:~/tip> gll --grep='asm/types.h' linus..core/header-fixes
>  1ff8f73: headers_check fix: xtensa, swab.h
>  4810987: headers_check fix: powerpc, swab.h
>  9f2cd96: headers_check fix: powerpc, kvm.h
>  785857f: headers_check fix: powerpc, elf.h
>  4be2c7f: headers_check fix: powerpc, bootx.h
>  726da1e: headers_check fix: parisc, swab.h
>  bef53ca: headers_check fix: mn10300, swab.h
>  a9f6acc: headers_check fix: mips, swab.h
>  d8cbec1: headers_check fix: m32r, swab.h
>  040c92b: headers_check fix: ia64, swab.h
>  6ce7950: headers_check fix: ia64, kvm.h
>  fa9ea6c: headers_check fix: ia64, fpu.h
>  295803e: headers_check fix: h8300, swab.h
>  dacd762: headers_check fix: frv, swab.h
>  350eb8b: headers_check fix: blackfin, swab.h
>  1c6ce70: headers_check fix: avr32, swab.h
>  e42ec24: headers_check fix: arm, swab.h
>  4af3bf6: headers_check fix: arm, setup.h
>  f100e6d: headers_check fix: arm, a.out.h
>  3fd5906: headers_check fix: alpha, swab.h
> 
> and send the rest to Linus if all outstanding observations have been 
> addressed. What do you think?
> 

The problem is if we include linux/types.h in assembly file we will get
error.

We can solve this problem by four options (or may be more):
1. by wrapping #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__ files which are used by assembly
code as suggested by Tony.

2. fix linux/types.h so that assembly file can also use it

3. drop patches which are used by assembly files

4. drop all architecture patches as you suggested.

Please do whatever seems best to you.

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JSR