Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 27 Dec 2008 19:57:27 +0100 | | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86 byteorder.h: use __asm__/__inline__ for userspace |
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On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 09:47:08AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> wrote: > > > On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 01:50:04AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > Use __asm__/__inline__ rather than asm/inline for all the functions > > > exported to userspace. > > > > I will imagine that we will see cleanup patches converting > > these back to inline/asm. > > How about doing this conversion as part of the headers_install.pl > > script so we know it is always correct? > > > > Then we can keep the familiar inline/asm in the kernel headers > > and always use the correct __asm__, __inline__ version for our > > exported headers. > > or name it __asm__exported__ to make sure it isnt cleaned up away.
I wnet with the scripted conversion for now. If that does not fly we can come back to this proposal.
What I like most with the auto conversion is that we avoid adding yet another special rule about how to do stuff in exported headers.
Sam
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