Re: [Patch 1/2] kbuild: two trivial fixes for check headers

[Amerigo Wang]

Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> Rightfully is does...
> But is think it is a prototype of a function.
>
> But think about it - it does not makes sense to have an
> extern declarationof a variable in an exported header.
> There is no way that userspace can access this variable
> from user-space and therefore the declaration of the variable
> needs to be moved to a kernel-only header file.
>
>   

Agree, then the script looks wrong. I will fix it.

> So if you touch this I would ask you not to consider a single line
> in jffs-user.h - but rather take a critiacal look at the whole
> file and fix any issues there is.
> And then to send it to the mtd people (dwmw2).
> I did not look at the file but just looking at yout patch
> the "undef jemode_to_cpu" looks fishy in an exported header.
>   

Hmm, after googling a bit, I got this patch:

http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/26224/

So I won't touch this.

Thanks.


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