Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:06:04 +0200 | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | Subject | Re: [-mm patch] make types.h usable for non-gcc C parsers |
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> > It fixes a bug exposed by a -mm only patch, not by the net tree > (and 2.6.23-rc3-mm1 doesn't contain the net tree at all). > > > But I'd like a better description, please. Which "non-gcc parser" are we > > talking about here? Something under ./scripts/. Well, please identify it, > > and describe what the problem is, and how the proposed patch will address > > it. > >... > > It's about parsers like the Sun C compiler and the C parser shipped > with genksyms.
So it is about two bugs. 1) kbuild (genksyms) fails to generate CRC for some symbols 2) allow userspace to parse the header
As for 2 we already use sed to remove a lot of stuff in our headers so why do we use another approach here?
As for 1 I will try to teach genksyms to accept __extension__ but it seems leess trivial than I expected (most be fooling myself somehow).
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