Re: [PATCH 1/1] UIO: mark uio.h functions __KERNEL__ only

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Tue Jul 28 2009 - 15:54:40 EST


On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 09:41:34PM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> To avoid userspace build failures such as:
> .../linux/uio.h:37: error: expected ???=???, ???,???, ???;???, ???asm??? or ???__attribute__??? before ???iov_length???
> .../linux/uio.h:47: error: expected declaration specifiers or ???...??? before ???size_t???
> move uio functions inside a __KERNEL__ block.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/uio.h | 2 ++
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/uio.h b/include/linux/uio.h
> index b7fe138..693c149 100644
> --- a/include/linux/uio.h
> +++ b/include/linux/uio.h
> @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ struct kvec {
> #define UIO_FASTIOV 8
> #define UIO_MAXIOV 1024
>
> +#ifdef __KERNEL__
> /*
> * Total number of bytes covered by an iovec.
> *
> @@ -53,5 +54,6 @@ static inline size_t iov_length(const struct iovec *iov, unsigned long nr_segs)
> }
>
> unsigned long iov_shorten(struct iovec *iov, unsigned long nr_segs, size_t to);
> +#endif
>
> #endif

Can we get this fixed up so we have a single #ifdef __KERNEL__ block?
It would be prettier, and nothing the in non-kernel part would rely
on the kernel part so you can put the kernel part in the bottom of
the file.

Sam
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