| From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 17/39] kbuild: fix header export when __ASSEMBLY__ is used | Date | Sat, 6 Jun 2009 00:41:07 +0000 |
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On Friday 05 June 2009 11:42:35 pm Sam Ravnborg wrote: > Because it does not know __ASSEMBLY__ it does not > detect that htis is not for userspace. > This caused too much code to be exported, and headers_check barfed > over this code. > > For arm this fixes following "make headers_check" warning: > /usr/include/asm/hwcap.h:29: extern's make no sense in userspace
Are you sure that this is safe for all user space? If a user application for instance includes asm/signal.h or asm/types.h from assembly (for whatever reason), it now breaks.
I can't think of a good reason why anyone would do such a thing, but it used to be possible.
Arnd <><
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