Re: [PATCH v2] xtables: make XT_ALIGN() usable in exported headersby exporting __ALIGN_KERNEL()

[Patrick McHardy]

Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 01:08:20PM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>> Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
>>> XT_ALIGN() was rewritten through ALIGN() by commit 42107f5009da223daa800d6da6904d77297ae829
>>> "netfilter: xtables: symmetric COMPAT_XT_ALIGN definition".
>>> ALIGN() is not exported in userspace headers, which created compile problem for tc(8)
>>> and will create problem for iptables(8).
>>>
>>> We can't export generic looking name ALIGN() but we can export less generic
>>> __ALIGN_KERNEL() (suggested by Ben Hutchings).
>>> Google knows nothing about __ALIGN_KERNEL().
>>>
>>> COMPAT_XT_ALIGN() changed for symmetry.
>> I've already pushed your change out, could you send me an incremental
>> fix please?
>>
>> master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kaber/nf-next-2.6.git
> 
> [PATCH] Restore __ALIGN_MASK()
> 
> Fix lib/bitmap.c compile failure due to __ALIGN_KERNEL changes.

Applied.
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