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From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: adobriyan@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	caulfie@redhat.com, teigland@redhat.com, dwmw2@infradead.org,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] include <linux/types.h> into linux/dlm_plock.h for __u* typedef
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:29:18 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080911152916.GE4933@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080910.131824.244309370.davem@davemloft.net>

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On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 01:18:24PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
> Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:15:13 +0300
> 
> > $ make headers_install
> > ...
> > $ gcc usr/include/linux/dlm_plock.h
> > usr/include/linux/dlm_plock.h:25: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list
> > before ‘__u32’
> 
> That's not how this file is used by real applications.
> Anybody can cook up contrived cases like this.
> 
> Please show a real application or kernel compilation which breaks
> because of the lack of types.h include here.

Any application which include this header before linux/types.h (directly or 
indirectly) will get the error. It's dependence on the order of inclusion.

-- 
Regards,  Kirill A. Shutemov
 + Belarus, Minsk
 + ALT Linux Team, http://www.altlinux.com/

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-11 15:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-10 11:22 [PATCH] include <linux/fs.h> into linux/ext2_fs.h Kirill A. Shutemov
2008-09-10 11:22 ` [PATCH] include <linux/types.h> into linux/dlm_plock.h for __u* typedef Kirill A. Shutemov
2008-09-10 11:22   ` [PATCH] include <linux/types.h> into linux/if_addrlabel.h " Kirill A. Shutemov
2008-09-10 11:22     ` [PATCH] include <linux/videodev2.h> into linux/ivtv.h Kirill A. Shutemov
2008-09-10 12:14   ` [PATCH] include <linux/types.h> into linux/dlm_plock.h for __u* typedef Alexey Dobriyan
2008-09-10 12:55     ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2008-09-10 13:11       ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-09-10 13:15         ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2008-09-10 20:18           ` David Miller
2008-09-11 15:29             ` Kirill A. Shutemov [this message]
2008-09-10 14:20     ` David Woodhouse
2008-09-10 11:27 ` [PATCH] include <linux/fs.h> into linux/ext2_fs.h Christoph Hellwig
2008-09-10 11:40   ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2008-09-10 11:40     ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-09-10 11:49       ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2008-09-10 13:39         ` Eric Sandeen
2008-09-10 13:47           ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2008-09-10 14:57             ` Eric Sandeen

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