Re: Can we get warnings from the x86 userspace headers fixed?

From: Harvey Harrison
Date: Mon Jan 12 2009 - 16:31:20 EST


On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 22:28 +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> Hi Ingo.
>
> We have recently introduced a lot of new warnings for our
> userspace headers.
>
> Try to do a "make headers_check" and enjoy...
>
> Are there any chance you could ask one of your helpers to
> start to look into the x86 specific ones?
>
> If we get x86 clean this would create more incentive to
> make the generic clean too.
>
> I had originally planned to attack the generic headers
> (include/linux/*) but I'm faced by reality after my
> vacation and has almost no spare time for the time being.
>
> I already fixed the sparc headers but that is not
> visible compared to x86 (the fixes was btw easy).
>
> I can try to help by doing a few reviews in the
> beginning but I need to fix kbuild stuff first where
> I have a few serious issues pending. And lacks time...
>

I'll have a go at some of them this afternoon unless someone beats me to it.

Harvey


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