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From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
To: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>,
	busybox@busybox.net
Subject: Re: [BUG] Linux 3.0 commit 3627924acf70a broke include/mtd/ubi_user.h.
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 14:16:29 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E481F0D.3090404@landley.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110814200322.3fa7109d@stein>

On 08/14/2011 01:03 PM, Stefan Richter wrote:
> On Aug 14 Rob Landley wrote:
>> "make headers_install" copies include/mtd/ubi_user.h to userspace, where
>> things like busybox link against it.  With 3.0, building defconfig
>> busybox gets this error:
>>
>> In file included from miscutils/ubi_tools.c:63:
>> /home/landley/aboriginal/aboriginal/build/simple-cross-compiler-i686/bin/../include/mtd/ubi-user.h:329:
>> error: conflicting types for '__packed'
>> /home/landley/aboriginal/aboriginal/build/simple-cross-compiler-i686/bin/../include/mtd/ubi-user.h:313:
>> error: previous declaration of '__packed' was here
>>
>> This is due to the Linux 3.0 commit in the title:
>>
>>     UBI: use __packed instead of __attribute__((packed))
>>
>> This relies on __packed being defined in:
>>
>>   include/linux/compiler-gcc.h:
>>   #define __packed			__attribute__((packed))
>>
>> Which is not exported to userspace.
>>
>> I.E. this "cleanup" broke the ability for userspace to use this header,
>> even though the header is exported to userspace by headers_install.
> 
> As far as I can tell, the __packed or __attribute__((packed))
> qualifications are superfluous in include/mtd/ubi-user.h anyway.

And Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@nokia.com> (the other listed UBI
maintainer) also bounces.  Did the developer exodus after Nokia decided
to cozy up to The Black Widow take 'em both out?

Rob

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-08-14 19:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-14 17:45 [BUG] Linux 3.0 commit 3627924acf70a broke include/mtd/ubi_user.h Rob Landley
2011-08-14 18:03 ` Stefan Richter
2011-08-14 19:11   ` Rob Landley
2011-08-14 19:16   ` Rob Landley [this message]
2011-08-15  3:39     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-08-15  3:42       ` Artem Bityutskiy

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