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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: "Justin P. Mattock" <justinmattock@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]kernel.h Fix #warning message web address.
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 23:36:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201006302336.46263.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C2BB52A.7070404@gmail.com>

On Wednesday 30 June 2010 23:20:42 Justin P. Mattock wrote:
> 
> > Hehe, ugly. How about making it a single string? GCC preprocessor
> > documentation suggests the same anyway ...
> >
> >       Neither `#error' nor `#warning' macro-expands its argument.
> >       Internal whitespace sequences are each replaced with a single space.
> >       The line must consist of complete tokens.  It is wisest to make the
> >       argument of these directives be a single string constant; this avoids
> >       problems with apostrophes and the like.
> >
 
What this is telling you is to put the text into a string constant, which
means you add quotation marks at the beginning and end of the line, like

#warning "see http://example.com/"

>  From 45f24db45faa06aad01cfc62ff4b475380e5cb11 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:06:18 -0700
> Subject: [PATCH]kernel.h Fix #warning message according to the GCC 
> preprocessor docs.

BTW, your mail client adds incorrect word wrapping.

> --- a/include/linux/kernel.h
> +++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
> @@ -730,7 +730,7 @@ extern int do_sysinfo(struct sysinfo *info);
> 
>   #ifndef __EXPORTED_HEADERS__
>   #ifndef __KERNEL__
> -#warning Attempt to use kernel headers from user space, see 
> http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelHeaders
> +#warning Attempt to use kernel headers from user space!
>   #endif /* __KERNEL__ */
>   #endif /* __EXPORTED_HEADERS__ */

Here, too.

Also, since you're already touching the warning message, it would be
nice to move it from kernel.h to types.h, which is much more commonly
used. When I introduced the message, I made the mistake to think
that kernel.h was universally used by the majority of all headers,
which turned out to be wrong. linux/types.h (or possibly linux/stddef.h)
seems to be the most commonly used one, so that would be a more
adequate place.

	Arnd

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-06-30 21:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-29 19:37 [PATCH]kernel.h Fix #warning message web address Justin P. Mattock
2010-06-30  9:48 ` Jiri Kosina
2010-06-30 13:28   ` Justin P. Mattock
2010-06-30 21:20   ` Justin P. Mattock
2010-06-30 21:22     ` Randy Dunlap
2010-06-30 21:37       ` Justin P. Mattock
2010-06-30 21:36     ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2010-06-30 22:13       ` Justin P. Mattock

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