Re: [PATCH] headers_check.pl: disallow extern's

[Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>]

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 05:15:08AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Saturday 27 December 2008 13:54:15 Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > > And we need to get these fixed before we apply this patch.
> > > Otherwise we will break every allyesconfig/allmodconfig builds
> >
> > I turned them into warnings for now.
> > And when I was there I fixed the TODO:
> >
> > From 2bbc376f97c4a75fbbb603b34f73db235a8cd2c1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
> > Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 19:52:20 +0100
> > Subject: [PATCH] kbuild: check for leaked CONFIG_ symbols to userspace
> 
> btw, do you maintain these in a git tree somewhere, or you just posting them 
> to lkml ?  the two kbuild trees under your name on kernel.org/git seems to be 
> lacking this change.  i was looking at adding another check: barf if the 
> header uses __[us]{8,16,32,64} types but does not include linux/types.h.

I push regurlary to kbuild-next.git but you hit a window where I had
asked Linus to pull and thus I avoided any updates.

I the meantime I managed to delete the patches I had queued up so
I need to do a bit of digging before I have a fully updated
kbuild-next.git again.

	Sam