Re: [PATCH 17/39] kbuild: fix header export when __ASSEMBLY__ is used

Sam Ravnborg
2009-06-06T06:03:44Z

On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 12:41:07AM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Friday 05 June 2009 11:42:35 pm Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > Because it does not know __ASSEMBLY__ it does not
> > detect that htis is not for userspace.
> > This caused too much code to be exported, and headers_check barfed
> > over this code.
> >
> > For arm this fixes following "make headers_check" warning:
> > /usr/include/asm/hwcap.h:29: extern's make no sense in userspace
>
> Are you sure that this is safe for all user space? If a user application
> for instance includes asm/signal.h or asm/types.h from assembly (for
> whatever reason), it now breaks.

I had not thought about this implication.
I will drop the patch as this most likely
will break some userspace.

Sam