Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 16:41:36 -0700
From: Tim Hockin <thockin@hockin.org>
To: "Robert M. Stockmann" <stock@stokkie.net>
Cc: Michael Poole <mdpoole@troilus.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Blacklist binary-only modules lying about their license
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On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 01:30:58AM +0200, Robert M. Stockmann wrote:
> > What the hell do these two paragraphs have to do with each other?
> 
> C99 coding style, more specific the use of unnamed and anonymous structures
> and unions, allows the kernel programmer to interface, read glue, binary only
> driver modules to interface with any linux kernel source tree.

What the hell are you going on about?  Unnamed structures are a
syntactical construct and have ZILCH to do with runtime.

> The needed header files, which need to be read by the gcc compiler, contain
> unnamed and annonymizes structures and unions. In the worst case scenario,
> only the name of used variables are given and no info about variable type or
> size are inside these headers files. gcc-2.95.3 fails to succesfully link these

Opaque types have been available FOREVER.
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