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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove genhd.h from header exports
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:01:33 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46B8C18D.7040902@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070807184722.GA31015@aepfle.de>

Olaf Hering wrote:
> remove linux/genhd.h from make headers_install
> 
> It contains no userinterfaces, only the msdos partition table layout and some
> numbers. And it became finally unusable with the CONFIG_BLOCK addition.
> 
> Remove it from the Kconfig list, and remove the __KERNEL__ checks.
> Move #include block up
> remove unused inclusion of linux/major.h
> 
> compile tested with ppc64_defconfig
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>

AFAICS the proper fix is to undo the CONFIG_BLOCK breakage, not make the 
header unusable.

	Jeff




  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-07 19:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-07 18:47 [PATCH] remove genhd.h from header exports Olaf Hering
2007-08-07 19:01 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2007-08-07 20:09   ` Olaf Hering

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