Re: [PATCH -tip] x86: headers - include linux/types.h instead ofasm/types.h

From: Cyrill Gorcunov
Date: Tue Jan 13 2009 - 07:57:26 EST


[Cyrill Gorcunov - Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 03:09:05PM +0300]
| Impact: cleanup
|
| 'make headers_check' warns that linux/types.h is
| preferred over asm/types.h. So be it.
|
| Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxxx>
| CC: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@xxxxxxxxx>
| CC: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
| CC: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@xxxxxxxxx>
| ---
|
| arch/x86/include/asm/e820.h | 2 ++
| arch/x86/include/asm/kvm.h | 2 +-
| arch/x86/include/asm/mce.h | 2 +-
| arch/x86/include/asm/mtrr.h | 1 +
| arch/x86/include/asm/ptrace-abi.h | 2 +-
| arch/x86/include/asm/sigcontext.h | 2 +-
| arch/x86/include/asm/swab.h | 2 +-
| 7 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
|
...

well... on the other hand I'm not sure if it's really
a good idea to include linux/types.h where we need only
__u[8,16] and so on definitions.

Ingo, don't apply this patch please -- have to check
for other ways.

- Cyrill -
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