Re: Recent binutils releases and linux kernel 2.5.69+

From: H. J. Lu (hjl@lucon.org)
Date: Thu May 29 2003 - 10:56:29 EST


This is a kernel issue and should be fixed in kernel unless we want
to do something in <sys/sysctl.h>.


H.J.
---
--- include/linux/sysctl.h.user 2003-05-29 07:36:51.000000000 -0700
+++ include/linux/sysctl.h 2003-05-29 08:47:21.000000000 -0700
@@ -28,6 +28,11 @@
#include <linux/types.h>
#include <linux/list.h>

+#ifdefine __KERNEL__
+#undef __user
+#define __user
+#endif
+
struct file;

#define CTL_MAXNAME 10 /* how many path components do we allow in a
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 08:04:46AM -0700, ismail donmez wrote:
>
> --- "H. J. Lu" <hjl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > What is the problem? Does linux/sysctl.h include
> > linux/compiler.h?
> No it doesnt include it directly. It includes
> linux/kernel.h and linux/kernel.h does a trick like
>
> #ifdef __KERNEL__
> .......
> #include <linux/compiler.h>
>
> So we never get __user defined.
>
> > Does your compiler define __CHECKER__?
> >
> No.
>
> Would it be too bad to a trick like
>
> #include <linux/version.h>
> #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(2,5,70)
> #define __user
> #endif
>
> What do you think?
>
> Regards,
> /ismail
>
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