From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Kyle McMartin <kyle@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>,
mingo@redhat.com, dwmw2@infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: Re: [rfc] headers_check cleanups break the whole world
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:16:33 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49A4F051.3000706@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090225071347.GH6690@bombadil.infradead.org>
Kyle McMartin wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 11:08:53PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Because <linux/types.h> should work just fine once we get rid of the
>> __KERNEL_STRICT_NAMES idiocy?
>>
>> FWIW, Arnd Bergmann has been working on exactly this cleanup.
>>
>
> Ah good, I was about to cook a patch, then I realized there's probably
> quite a mess of userspace things depending on, say, sector_t and such.
>
> This is a pretty ugly problem, all things considered. :/
>
Not all that bad, actually.
This is the last patch I've seen on the subject:
http://marc.info/?i=200902051707.55457.arnd@arndb.de
-hpa
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-25 7:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-25 3:25 [rfc] headers_check cleanups break the whole world Kyle McMartin
2009-02-25 6:24 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-02-25 6:56 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-25 7:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-02-25 7:05 ` Kyle McMartin
2009-02-25 7:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-02-25 7:13 ` Kyle McMartin
2009-02-25 7:16 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2009-02-25 7:22 ` Kyle McMartin
2009-02-25 18:17 ` [PATCH] Make exported headers use strict posix types Arnd Bergmann
2009-02-25 20:11 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-02-25 21:42 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-02-25 21:58 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-02-25 22:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-02-25 22:39 ` David Woodhouse
2009-02-25 23:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-02-25 23:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-02-26 0:01 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-02-26 0:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-02-25 11:34 ` [rfc] headers_check cleanups break the whole world Sam Ravnborg
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