Re: [PATCH] 2.4.21-rc1: byteorder.h breaks with __STRICT_ANSI__

David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Tue, 06 May 2003 22:19:06 +0100

On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 15:10, Thomas Horsten wrote:
> I see where you're coming from, but not being able to compile existing
> applications where they are never used but need to include e.g.
> cdrom.h, is IMHO even worse.

The correct fix is to provide a userland-only version of cdrom.h which
doesn't use the private kernel types.h. Or a file containing _only_
those parts which can be shared between kernel and userland, defined
using standard types such as uint32_t etc. 

-- 
dwmw2




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