Re: [GIT PULL -tip v3] fix 39 'make headers_check' warnings

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sun Jan 18 2009 - 14:10:13 EST


* Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 07:50:34PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > hm, i just noticed this detail:
> >
> > commit 3521c5eef990515719614e212b26ea49e610d072
> > Author: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Sat Jan 17 19:25:46 2009 +0530
> >
> > headers_check fix: x86, swab.h
> >
> > fix the following 'make headers_check' warnings:
> >
> > usr/include/asm/swab.h:4: include of <linux/types.h> is preferred over <asm/types.h>
> > usr/include/asm/swab.h:7: found __[us]{8,16,32,64} type without #include <linux/types.h>
> > usr/include/asm/swab.h:10: leaks CONFIG_X86 to userspace where it is not valid
> > usr/include/asm/swab.h:40: leaks CONFIG_X86 to userspace where it is not valid
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/swab.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/swab.h
> > index 306d417..613be68 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/swab.h
> > +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/swab.h
> > @@ -1,12 +1,15 @@
> > #ifndef _ASM_X86_SWAB_H
> > #define _ASM_X86_SWAB_H
> >
> > -#include <asm/types.h>
> > +#include <linux/types.h>
> > +#ifdef __KERNEL__
> > #include <linux/compiler.h>
> > +#endif /* __KERNEL__ */
>
> compiler.h includes should be nuked by make headers_instll automatically.

So the compiler.h include can be left there, and headers_check will not
warn about it?

Ingo
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