Re: tipc_config.h requires linux/string.h, which does not exist inexported headers

[David Miller]

From: David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:59:26 -0700 (PDT)

> I think the thing to do is just __KERNEL__ protect the
> <linux/string.h> include and require userspace to
> include <string.h> itself when using these headers.
> 
> That's what I'm testing right now.
> 
> I'm pretty sure those inlines are indeed used by userspace.

Actually, I'm tempted to put <string.h> in the ifndef __KERNEL__
block of that header.

That's ugly.

An alternative is to add linux/string.h to unifdef-y and have it
include <string.h> when !__KERNEL__ in order to handle cases like
this.

Sam, what do you think of that idea?
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