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From: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
To: Blaisorblade <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH 8/8] uml: avoid "CONFIG_NR_CPUS undeclared" bogus error messages
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 14:43:56 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060119194356.GA8670@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200601191601.31805.blaisorblade@yahoo.it>

On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 04:01:28PM +0100, Blaisorblade wrote:
> Gerd Knorr in his tty patch, instead, used forward declarations, like:
> 
> struct task_struct; 
> 
> what about that?

I don't think so.  At least when you use void *, you are using a type
that's not incorrect.  In userspace code, those task_structs start
referring to host task_structs, which is definitely very wrong.

> Those functions probably should be moved anyway because they're
> useless there

Yeah.

				Jeff

  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-19 18:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-18 23:51 [PATCH 0/8] Other UML batch Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
2006-01-18 23:54 ` [PATCH 1/8] uml: typo fixup Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
2006-01-18 23:55 ` [PATCH 2/8] uml: comments about libc-conflict guards Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
2006-01-18 23:55 ` [PATCH 3/8] uml: fix hugest stack users Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
2006-01-18 23:55 ` [PATCH 4/8] uml: fix "apples/bananas" typo Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
2006-01-18 23:55 ` [PATCH 5/8] uml: TT - SYSCALL_DEBUG - fix buglet introduced in cleanup Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
2006-01-18 23:55 ` [PATCH 6/8] uml: skas0-hold-own-ldt fixups for x86-64 Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
2006-01-18 23:55 ` [PATCH 7/8] uml: some harmless sparse warning fixes Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
2006-01-18 23:55 ` [PATCH 8/8] uml: avoid "CONFIG_NR_CPUS undeclared" bogus error messages Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
2006-01-19  4:21   ` [uml-devel] " Jeff Dike
2006-01-19 15:01     ` Blaisorblade
2006-01-19 19:43       ` Jeff Dike [this message]
2006-01-19 23:41         ` Blaisorblade

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