Re: [PATCH v03 00/98] Userspace compile test and fixes for exported uapi header files

From: Richard Weinberger
Date: Sat May 30 2015 - 16:13:01 EST


On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 5:37 PM, Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@xxxxxx> wrote:
> v3:
> tried to fix all v2 review findings
> tried to guess how to fix a few more issue
> with a few hacks, 0 files fail and 760 files pass the compile test on 32bit x86
>
> v2:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/2/16/521
> added cross compiler support with CROSS_COMPILE,
> detecting libc and GCC headers from compiler,
> more header file fixes
>
> v1:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/21/665
>
> Users of kernel header files would be happier if they did not contain
> kernel specific parts and would contain #include statements for all
> other header files that they depend on, and in general would compile.

Maybe this is a stupid question, but does that mean that many of our uapi
headers never worked as expected and don't build at all?

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Thanks,
//richard
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