Re: [PATCH] um: always use the same type for __syscall_stub_start

[Richard Weinberger]

Am 11.10.2014 um 13:29 schrieb Nicolas Iooss:
> syscall_stub_start is declared with different types in C files:
> 
>   arch/um/kernel/physmem.c: extern int __syscall_stub_start;
>   arch/um/kernel/skas/mmu.c: extern int __syscall_stub_start;
>   arch/um/os-Linux/skas/mem.c: extern unsigned long __syscall_stub_start;
>   arch/um/os-Linux/skas/process.c: extern int __syscall_stub_start;
> 
> Fix this inconsistency by always using unsigned long.  This does not
> change anything in the compiled code because only the address of
> __syscall_stub_start is used, but it makes the static checker I use
> stop complaining about incompatible declarations.

While we're here, can you put these declarations into a single header file?

Thanks,
//richard
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