From: "Alexey Dobriyan" <adobriyan@gmail.com>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: just how "sanitized" are the sanitized headers?
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 11:26:04 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b6fcc0a0611300026y6defe704o4f7dd4f1e82d5c1b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611291812510.7515@localhost.localdomain>
On 11/30/06, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> wrote:
> i noticed that, when i generate the sanitized headers with "make
> headers_install", there are still a number of headers files that are
> installed with variations on "#ifdef __KERNEL__".
>
> i always thought the fundamental property of sanitized headers was
> to be compatible with glibc
You were wrong.
> and have no traces of "KERNEL" content
> left.
That's correct.
> so what's the purpose of leaving some header files with that
> preprocessor content?
When you see __KERNEL__ in sanitized headers, it's either due to
a) unifdef bug, or
b) header being listed in header-y when it should be listed in unifdef-y
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-30 8:26 UTC|newest]
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2006-11-29 23:15 Robert P. J. Day
2006-11-30 8:26 ` Alexey Dobriyan [this message]
2006-11-30 9:55 ` Robert P. J. Day
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