Re: [PATCH] x86 byteorder.h: use __asm__/__inline__ for userspace

Mike Frysinger
2008-12-27T07:55:57Z

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On Saturday 27 December 2008 02:12:08 Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 01:50:04AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > Use __asm__/__inline__ rather than asm/inline for all the functions
> > exported to userspace.
>
> I will imagine that we will see cleanup patches converting
> these back to inline/asm.
> How about doing this conversion as part of the headers_install.pl
> script so we know it is always correct?
>
> Then we can keep the familiar inline/asm in the kernel headers
> and always use the correct __asm__, __inline__ version for our
> exported headers.

yeah, i think these kind of "fixes" went in between 2.6.27 and 2.6.28 because
there's a lot more hits on "inline" than there were previously ...
-mike

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