Re: [PATCH v2] documentation: build source files in Documentationsub-dir

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Thu Apr 10 2008 - 21:14:12 EST


On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:56:30 -0700 Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, 9 Apr 2008 14:54:09 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> > make allmodconfig
> > gcc -I$(/bin/pwd)/include Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c -o getdelays
> >
> > In file included from /usr/src/devel/include/linux/netlink.h:5,
> > from /usr/src/devel/include/linux/genetlink.h:4,
> > from Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c:26:
> > /usr/src/devel/include/linux/types.h:203: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before '__kernel_daddr_t'
>
>
> Those __kernel_* types shouldn't be used outside of the #ifdef __KERNEL__
> block, should they?
>
> Patch below fixes kernel side for me. Don't have any idea what it
> may do to userspace users of the header file.
>
> ---
> include/linux/types.h | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> --- mmotm-2008-0410-0157.orig/include/linux/types.h
> +++ mmotm-2008-0410-0157/include/linux/types.h
> @@ -200,8 +200,8 @@ typedef u32 resource_size_t;
> #endif /* __KERNEL__ */
>
> struct ustat {
> - __kernel_daddr_t f_tfree;
> - __kernel_ino_t f_tinode;
> + daddr_t f_tfree;
> + ino_t f_tinode;
> char f_fname[6];
> char f_fpack[6];
> };

hm.

It'd be nice to know how git-x86 managed to make this happen. I haven't
looked, apart from noting that it doesn't seem to touch any of the relevant
files.

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