Messages in this thread | | | From | Mike Frysinger <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] headers_install.pl: autoconvert asm/inline/volatile to __xxx__ | Date | Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:34:05 -0500 |
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On Wednesday 31 December 2008 12:15:07 Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Saturday 27 December 2008, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > Headers in userspace should be using the __xxx__ form of the asm, inline, > > and volatile keywords. Since people like to revert these things without > > realizing what's going on, have the headers install step autoconvert > > these keywords. > > > > Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> > > The patch looks right, but I would argue that most of the instances of > any of these should not be exported in the first place. I'm not > sure whether there is a legitimate use for the byteorder inlines, > but the others I could find look like they are not meant for use by the > kernel.
maybe, but those threads are going to take quite a while to resolve and things will constantly leak back out. -mike [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |