Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.4.21-rc1: byteorder.h breaks with __STRICT_ANSI__
	defined (trivial)
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Thomas Horsten <thomas@horsten.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
       Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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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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