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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: greearb@candelatech.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix build on fedora-14 (and other older systems)
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2017 08:50:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170903085004.5b5ded4f@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1504361702-30266-1-git-send-email-greearb@candelatech.com>

On Sat,  2 Sep 2017 07:15:02 -0700
greearb@candelatech.com wrote:

> diff --git a/include/linux/sysinfo.h b/include/linux/sysinfo.h
> index 934335a..3596b02 100644
> --- a/include/linux/sysinfo.h
> +++ b/include/linux/sysinfo.h
> @@ -3,6 +3,14 @@
>  
>  #include <linux/types.h>
>  
> +/* So we can compile on older OSs, hopefully this is correct. --Ben */
> +#ifndef __kernel_long_t
> +typedef long __kernel_long_t;
> +#endif
> +#ifndef __kernel_ulong_t
> +typedef unsigned long __kernel_ulong_t;
> +#endif
> +
>  #define SI_LOAD_SHIFT	16
>  struct sysinfo {
>  	__kernel_long_t uptime;		/* Seconds since boot */

I am not accepting this patch because all files in include/linux are automatically
regenerated from kernel 'make install_headers'. No exceptions. If you want to change
a header in include/linux it has to go through upstream kernel inclusion.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-09-03 15:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-02 14:15 [PATCH] Fix build on fedora-14 (and other older systems) greearb
2017-09-02 17:03 ` Michal Kubecek
2017-09-03 15:50 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2017-09-03 18:28   ` Ben Greear

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