From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: sam@ravnborg.org
Cc: raa.lkml@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
per.liden@ericsson.com, allan.stephens@windriver.com
Subject: Re: tipc_config.h requires linux/string.h, which does not exist in exported headers
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:05:37 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071030.150537.240140474.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071030.145926.219328422.davem@davemloft.net>
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:59:26 -0700 (PDT)
> I think the thing to do is just __KERNEL__ protect the
> <linux/string.h> include and require userspace to
> include <string.h> itself when using these headers.
>
> That's what I'm testing right now.
>
> I'm pretty sure those inlines are indeed used by userspace.
Actually, I'm tempted to put <string.h> in the ifndef __KERNEL__
block of that header.
That's ugly.
An alternative is to add linux/string.h to unifdef-y and have it
include <string.h> when !__KERNEL__ in order to handle cases like
this.
Sam, what do you think of that idea?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-30 22:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-30 19:13 Alex Riesen
2007-10-30 21:54 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-10-30 21:59 ` David Miller
2007-10-30 22:05 ` David Miller [this message]
2007-10-30 22:20 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-10-30 22:31 ` David Miller
2007-10-31 4:14 ` David Miller
2007-10-31 4:56 ` David Miller
2007-10-31 7:37 ` Alex Riesen
2007-10-31 9:46 ` Sam Ravnborg
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