Re: [PATCH] asm-ppc/elf.h warning

[Tom Rini]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 08:00:06PM +0200, Meelis Roos wrote:

> > Can you try just removing <linux/elf.h> from everything in
> > arch/ppc/boot/ ?
> 
> elf.h include is present in arch/ppc/boot/simple/misc.c and
> arch/ppc/boot/simple/misc-embedded.c. The first one caused my warning
> and the include can be safely removed from there. The other file is not
> used in my config (prep) but I did try to compile it with elf.h include
> removed (make arch/ppc/boot/simple/misc-embedded.o) and it failed. So
> here is the patch against arch/ppc/boot/simple/misc.c.

Ok, I'll look into that myself.

> Nevertheless,
> asm-ppc/elf.h can not be included by itself without a warning about
> struct task_struct - is this a problem or not?

It depends on if (a) other arches have a task_struct-needing extern in
this file and (b) what do they do?  There's at least a few #includes
with implicit #include requirements out there, i _think_.

-- 
Tom Rini
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
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