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SubjectRe: BUG: via_drmclient.h is referenced but does not exist
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 04:57:34PM +0100, Thomas Hellström wrote:
> Hi!
>
> The intention is for via_drm.h to be self-containing when included both
> for a kernel build and for a user-space build. In this particular case,
> via_drmclient.h lives in the user-space clients and includes stdint.h to
> get access to uint32_t and friends.
>
> Of course, the user-space clients could
> #include "uint32.h"
> #include "via_drm.h"
>
> but shouldn't really the tools be mimicing what the compiler does in
> this case?

The kernel headers and thus the kernel ABI is separate and ideally
they should not depend on any other header files to provide anything.

This is why __u32, __u64 etc are preferred in the kernel ABI
and not uint32_t as used by the drm headers.

We do not adhere to this as a strict rule (yet).
But if you do:

grep -l uint32_t usr/include/linux

then you will only see 7 hits. Out of 368 files.
So we are not bad in this respect.

For drm the fix seems simple - just replace all of uint32_t with __u32.
likewise for the other 32 bit and the 64 bit variants.

For the specific case where drm includes a non-existing file I suggest
that we get this fixed in some way soon.

Sam
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