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From: "Kevin P. Fleming" <kpfleming@cox.net>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] include/linux/sysctl.h needs linux/compiler.h
Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 12:56:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3ED908F0.40901@cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030531203242.B4202@infradead.org>

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 09:18:44AM -0700, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> 
>>Adding patch below solves the problem (yes, I know, userspace is not 
>>supposed to use kernel headers...)
> 
> 
> So why do you try it anyway?
> 

Until someone addresses this issue with a permanent fix, is there 
another choice? How can any userspace library that needs to issue 
syscalls compile against the existing sysctl.h without this change? I'm 
open to suggestions, obviously this was a quick and dirty fix (copied 
from other existing headers in .../linux already, which is certainly no 
excuse).


  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-31 19:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-31 16:18 [PATCH] include/linux/sysctl.h needs linux/compiler.h Kevin P. Fleming
2003-05-31 19:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-31 19:56   ` Kevin P. Fleming [this message]
2003-05-31 20:25 ` ismail (cartman) donmez
2003-05-31 20:32   ` Kevin P. Fleming
2003-05-31 20:58     ` ismail (cartman) donmez
2003-05-31 21:08       ` Kevin P. Fleming
2003-05-31 21:16         ` ismail (cartman) donmez
2003-05-31 23:37           ` Kevin P. Fleming
2003-06-01  8:36             ` ismail (cartman) donmez
2003-06-02  5:43               ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-06-02  7:24                 ` ismail (cartman) donmez

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