Re: Can we get warnings from the x86 userspace headers fixed?

[Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderlinux@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 3:07 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
>
> * Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 22:28 +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>> > Hi Ingo.
>> >
>> > We have recently introduced a lot of new warnings for our
>> > userspace headers.
>> >
>> > Try to do a "make headers_check" and enjoy...
>> >
>> > Are there any chance you could ask one of your helpers to
>> > start to look into the x86 specific ones?
>> >
>> > If we get x86 clean this would create more incentive to
>> > make the generic clean too.
>> >
>> > I had originally planned to attack the generic headers
>> > (include/linux/*) but I'm faced by reality after my
>> > vacation and has almost no spare time for the time being.
>> >
>> > I already fixed the sparc headers but that is not
>> > visible compared to x86 (the fixes was btw easy).
>> >
>> > I can try to help by doing a few reviews in the
>> > beginning but I need to fix kbuild stuff first where
>> > I have a few serious issues pending. And lacks time...
>> >
>>
>> I'll have a go at some of them this afternoon unless someone beats me to
>> it.
>
> thanks Harvey! Please work against tip/master if you do that, there's a
> few header file changes in the queue already.
>

Some patches are also available in:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/jaswinder/linux-2.6-tiptop.git;a=summary

Thanks
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JSR