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
next prev 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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