Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RESEND PATCH 1/1] bitops.h: move out get_count_order[_long]() from __KERNEL__ scope | From | zijun_hu <> | Date | Thu, 18 Aug 2016 08:50:37 +0800 |
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On 2016/8/18 8:28, Al Viro wrote: > On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 08:10:19AM +0800, zijun_hu wrote: > >> Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt: >> The kernel includes a set of headers that is exported to userspace. >> Many headers can be exported as-is but other headers require a >> minimal pre-processing before they are ready for user-space. >> The pre-processing does: >> - drop kernel-specific annotations >> - drop include of compiler.h >> - drop all sections that are kernel internal (guarded by ifdef __KERNEL__) >> >> scripts/Makefile.headersinst: >> # ========================================================================== >> # Installing headers >> # >> # header-y - list files to be installed. They are preprocessed >> # to remove __KERNEL__ section of the file >> # genhdr-y - Same as header-y but in a generated/ directory > > Quite. Now, could you show me where bitops.h is mentioned in any header-y > assignments? > you are right bitops.h isn't mentioned in any header-y my aim is making macro __KERNEL__ purpose or history purpose clear it isn't a bad thing to follow __KERNEL__ purpose it maybe look nicer to keep get_counter_order() original scope
that don't matter since the current scope works well also > Stuff outside of */uapi/* is not exported at all. >
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