Re: [rfc] headers_check cleanups break the whole world

From: Kyle McMartin
Date: Wed Feb 25 2009 - 02:14:18 EST


On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 11:08:53PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Because <linux/types.h> 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. :/

regards, Kyle
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