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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Fix building kernel under Solaris

On Mar 8 2007 08:35, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 11:45:11PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>>
>> On Mar 7 2007 09:42, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> >> #include <sys/time.h>
>> >> #include <sys/ioctl.h>
>> >> #include <sys/types.h>
>> >> +#ifndef __sun__
>> >> #include <asm/types.h>
>> >> #endif
>> >> +#endif
>> >
>> >So if solaris doesn't need it, why do we need it on Linux?
>>
>> For __s32 and __s16.
>
>We shouldn't use those from asm/types.h on Linux either, but
>get them consitantly by defining them to the C99 or BSD types
>from the libc headers.

It's a bit icky. file2alias.c includes "../../include/linux/input.h" and it is
_input.h_ that requires __s16/__s32 and hence includes <asm/types.h>.
If you ask me, it's file2alias.c that's broken.


Jan
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