Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 07/12] atm: hide 'struct zatm_t_hist' | From | "Charles (Chas) Williams" <> | Date | Wed, 30 Sep 2015 11:24:35 -0400 |
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On Wed, 2015-09-30 at 13:26 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > The zatm_t_hist structure is not used anywhere in the kernel, but is > exported to user space. As we are trying to eliminate uses of time_t > in the kernel for y2038 compatibility, the current definition triggers > checking tools because it contains 'struct timeval'. > > We can work around this by adding '#ifdef __KERNEL__'. I could not find > out what the structure is actually used for, so this is the safe choice > in case there is some user space tool that relies on the definition. > > If we are sure that nothing in user space relies on the structure, we > can instead remove the definition completely.
It was used by the ZATM_GETHIST ioctl which is long since gone in the kernel driver. You can just remove this.
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