Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 May 2005 13:28:40 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: Illegal use of reserved word in system.h |
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On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 10:22:24PM -0400, Kyle Moffett wrote: > > On May 18, 2005, at 15:53:37, Adrian Bunk wrote: > >Looking at the source code of MySQL, it seems MySQL does some dirty > >tricks for using the inlines from asm/atomic.h in userspace. > > > >It's _really_ wrong to do this. > > A project that had some discussion a while ago was to clean up the > kernel headers and separate them from the kernel-ABI ones, such that > the ABI headers don't need to use CONFIG_* defines or anything else. > that might be iffy. >...
The whole kernel headers issue contains real problems that have to be solved properly.
But in this case, this is not the problem:
What MySQL uses from asm/atomic.h doesn't seem to have anything to do with any kind of kernel <-> userspace interface (which is what userspace might validly require kernel headers for).
> Cheers, > Kyle Moffett
cu Adrian
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