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* [rfc] headers_check cleanups break the whole world
@ 2009-02-25  3:25 Kyle McMartin
  2009-02-25  6:24 ` H. Peter Anvin
  2009-02-25  6:56 ` Ingo Molnar
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 20+ messages in thread
From: Kyle McMartin @ 2009-02-25  3:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: mingo; +Cc: dwmw2, linux-kernel, hpa

[names omitted to protect the innocent, hpa@ on the CC wrt klibc maybe
  using these? ]

Hi,

Commits like

    headers_check fix: foo.h
    
    fix the following 'make headers_check' warnings:
      usr/include/linux/foo.h:29: include of <linux/types.h> is preferred
      usr/include/linux/foo.h:102: found __[us]{8,16,32,64} type without

have proved problematic...

I've had to point out at least two userspace fixes[1] for a variety of
reasons that these patches exacerbated. Note however that I didn't say
they were wrong.

The reason for this is you cannot intermix glibc header <sys/*.h>
includes with <linux/*.h> includes for most things without defining the
__KERNEL_STRICT_NAMES guard. If you fail to define this, you end up
with multiple definitions of things like dev_t.

Software was able to get by, because things that used the headers, dvb for
example were not getting <linux/types.h> into the include chain, because
they were using <asm/types.h> directly.

I propose we invert that logic, so the presumable libc that makes use of
the <linux/types.h> header can just define that it wants these types.
(test __KERNEL__ as well so the kernel doesn't need a pointless
#define.)

If this isn't tenable, how about moving the {,__}[su]{8,16,32,64}
integer types into their own header, so we can avoid this mess ever
occuring in the future. I'm sure the janitors can have a field day with
that... :)

That said, who exactly is the userspace consumer for those
	typedef __kernel_dev_t	dev_t;
defines? Can we just include them all in #ifdef __KERNEL__?

Thoughts?

cheers, Kyle

1. Ok, one of them was libcap playing utterly stupid games with
<linux/capability.h> and header guards, but it was exacerbated by a
similar patch...


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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
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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