Re: [PATCH] warning: `__attribute_used__' redefined

[Jeff Chua <jchua@fedex.com>]

On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > ah, thanks.
> > Like this?
> That will just break. The reason for the "compiler.h" include is the
> "__user" part of fpstate, so now you'll get a parse error later if
> non-kernel code includes this.
>
> So the rule should still be: don't include kernel headers from user
> programs. But if it's needed for some reason, that #ifdef needs to be
> somewhere else (inside "compiler.h" or something).

So, what's wrong with the patch I posted earlier. I've verified that it
works with just one place to patch, and that makes all warnings went away.

Patch attached here again.

Thanks,
Jeff

--- linux-2.6.2/include/linux/compiler-gcc2.h	Wed Feb  4 11:45:02 2004
+++ linux-2.6.3-rc2/include/linux/compiler-gcc2.h	Tue Feb 10 14:30:04 2004
@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@
 # define __builtin_expect(x, expected_value) (x)
 #endif

+#ifdef __attribute_used__
+#undef __attribute_used__
+#endif
+
 #define __attribute_used__	__attribute__((__unused__))

 /*