Re: [PATCH] taint/module: Fix problems when out-of-kernel driver defines true or false

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Mon Jan 02 2017 - 00:50:58 EST


On Sun, Jan 01, 2017 at 08:25:25PM -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
> Commit 7fd8329ba502 ("taint/module: Clean up global and module taint
> flags handling") used the key words true and false as character members
> of a new struct. These names cause problems when out-of-kernel modules
> such as VirtualBox include their own definitions of true and false.

Whuch they should not define, so fix them, just like you;d fix them for
everything else that would conflict with something in kernel headers.