Re: scripts/mod/file2alias.c cross compile problem

[Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>]

On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 10:40:14AM -0700, Luck, Tony wrote:
> >>>  struct acpi_device_id {
> >>>  	__u8 id[ACPI_ID_LEN];
> >>> +	__u8 dummy[FILLUP_LEN];
> >>>  	kernel_ulong_t driver_data;
> >>>  };
> >>
> >> What's so special about this structure that we get an error?
> >
> > It's special because it's a device_id structure, and those structures
> > must come out identical using either the host or the target compiler.
> 
> That didn't help me understand.  Are device_id structures visible
> in some user-level API?  If so, then I can see why they'd need to
> be the same (but then I'd be confused why this structure uses a
> "kernel_ulong_t" type).

I second this. For anything visible in userspace from
include/* we require usage of the kernel specific
__u8, __u16, __u32, __u64 typedefs but for device_id we accept
kernel_ulong_t which result in the following crap in
file2alias.c:

/* We use the ELF typedefs for kernel_ulong_t but bite the bullet and
 * use either stdint.h or inttypes.h for the rest. */
#if KERNEL_ELFCLASS == ELFCLASS32
typedef Elf32_Addr      kernel_ulong_t;
#define BITS_PER_LONG 32
#else
typedef Elf64_Addr      kernel_ulong_t;
#define BITS_PER_LONG 64
#endif

And we ought to have __u64 available.
See for example types.h from asm-i386:
#if defined(__GNUC__) && !defined(__STRICT_ANSI__)
typedef __signed__ long long __s64;
typedef unsigned long long __u64;
#endif


	Sam