Re: [PATCH] pstore: Headers should include all stuff they use

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 11:37:07AM -0700, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> Headers should really include all the needed prototypes, types, defines
> etc. to be self-contained. This is a long-standing issue, but apparently
> the new tracing code unearthed it (SMP=n is also a prerequisite):
> 
> In file included from fs/pstore/internal.h:4:0,
>                  from fs/pstore/ftrace.c:21:
> include/linux/pstore.h:43:15: error: field ‘read_mutex’ has incomplete type
> 
> While at it, I also added the following:
> 
> linux/types.h -> size_t, phys_addr_t, uXX and friends
> linux/spinlock.h -> spinlock_t
> linux/errno.h -> Exxxx
> linux/time.h -> struct timespec (struct passed by value)
> struct module and rs_control forward declaration (passed via pointers).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
> ---
> 
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 11:19:44AM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 11:13:59AM -0700, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> > > Headers should really include all the needed prototypes, types, defines
> > 
> > <snip>
> > 
> >   Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> > 
> > That's not a nice way to send patches out, care to fix this and resend?
> 
> I used 'git send-email' as normal, and it said:
> 
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
> 
> 
> OK, I checked what vger.kernel.org received, and it still says:
> 
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
> 
> And I see the email readable in the text editor.
> 
> OK, with linux_banner I got what the problem is, but where base64
> came from?.. :-/

It looks like the devel mailing list does this conversion, ugh, mailman
sucks at times.

Sorry about that,

greg k-h