From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759923AbZBYHU1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Feb 2009 02:20:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751767AbZBYHUQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Feb 2009 02:20:16 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:36509 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752082AbZBYHUP (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Feb 2009 02:20:15 -0500 Message-ID: <49A4F051.3000706@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:16:33 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kyle McMartin CC: Ingo Molnar , Sam Ravnborg , Jaswinder Singh Rajput , mingo@redhat.com, dwmw2@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann Subject: Re: [rfc] headers_check cleanups break the whole world References: <20090225032553.GD6690@bombadil.infradead.org> <20090225065632.GB21903@elte.hu> <20090225070511.GG6690@bombadil.infradead.org> <49A4EE85.5000907@zytor.com> <20090225071347.GH6690@bombadil.infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20090225071347.GH6690@bombadil.infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Kyle McMartin wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 11:08:53PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> Because 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.