Re: [PATCH] atm/iphase: rename fregt_t -> ffreg_t

From: David Miller
Date: Fri Feb 08 2013 - 14:22:24 EST


From: chas williams - CONTRACTOR <chas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 09:58:42 -0500

> On Fri, 8 Feb 2013 11:19:11 +0100
> Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> We have conflicting type qualifiers for "freg_t" in s390's ptrace.h and the
>> iphase atm device driver, which causes the compile error below.
>> Unfortunately the s390 typedef can't be renamed, since it's a user visible api,
>> nor can I change the include order in s390 code to avoid the conflict.
>>
>> So simply rename the iphase typedef to a new name. Fixes this compile error:
>>
>> In file included from drivers/atm/iphase.c:66:0:
>> drivers/atm/iphase.h:639:25: error: conflicting type qualifiers for 'freg_t'
>> In file included from next/arch/s390/include/asm/ptrace.h:9:0,
>> from next/arch/s390/include/asm/lowcore.h:12,
>> from next/arch/s390/include/asm/thread_info.h:30,
>> from include/linux/thread_info.h:54,
>> from include/linux/preempt.h:9,
>> from include/linux/spinlock.h:50,
>> from include/linux/seqlock.h:29,
>> from include/linux/time.h:5,
>> from include/linux/stat.h:18,
>> from include/linux/module.h:10,
>> from drivers/atm/iphase.c:43:
>> next/arch/s390/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h:197:3: note: previous declaration of 'freg_t' was here
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> seems like a fine idea.
>
> Acked-by: chas williams - CONTRACTOR <chas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks.
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