Hello----
Background: compiling lm_sensors 2.5.2 on RedHat 7.0 running 2.4.0-test8
kernel. (vanilla intel system)
Attempting to compile the sensor package gave symbol errors regarding
the xxx_ret symbols (copying to/from user space, putting/getting. These
have been removed from uaccess.h in recent kernels. These were present
in 2.2.16 and at least some 2.3.x kernels. As you can see from the
appended diff, these appear to be the only changes. I tend to assume
there's a reason, but could find no explanation in the kernel docs for
it.
For what it's worth, I could still compile the application--just not
load its modules.
Many apologies if this is not the right place to send this--it seemed
the most likely place after checking MAINTAINERS and REPORTING-BUGS.
bye----
wes
--- /usr/include/asm/uaccess.h Fri Aug 25 08:31:57 2000
+++ /usr/src/linux/include/asm/uaccess.h Fri Sep 29 12:09:04 2000
@@ -232,20 +232,6 @@
: "=r"(err), ltype (x) \
: "m"(__m(addr)), "i"(-EFAULT), "0"(err))
-/*
- * The "xxx_ret" versions return constant specified in third argument,
if
- * something bad happens. These macros can be optimized for the
- * case of just returning from the function xxx_ret is used.
- */
-
-#define put_user_ret(x,ptr,ret) ({ if (put_user(x,ptr)) return ret; })
-
-#define get_user_ret(x,ptr,ret) ({ if (get_user(x,ptr)) return ret; })
-
-#define __put_user_ret(x,ptr,ret) ({ if (__put_user(x,ptr)) return ret;
})
-
-#define __get_user_ret(x,ptr,ret) ({ if (__get_user(x,ptr)) return ret;
})
-
/*
* Copy To/From Userspace
@@ -582,10 +568,6 @@
(__builtin_constant_p(n) ? \
__constant_copy_from_user((to),(from),(n)) : \
__generic_copy_from_user((to),(from),(n)))
-
-#define copy_to_user_ret(to,from,n,retval) ({ if
(copy_to_user(to,from,n)) return retval; })
-
-#define copy_from_user_ret(to,from,n,retval) ({ if
(copy_from_user(to,from,n)) return retval; })
#define __copy_to_user(to,from,n) \
(__builtin_constant_p(n) ? \
-
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