Subject: Re: Correct types for mod_devicetable.h (was: Re: m68k build
	failure)
From: Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
       Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
       Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>, Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>, Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>,
       Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2007 01:43:30 -0500
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On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 22:58 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 09:02:19PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > On Sunday 02 December 2007 22:22:31 Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > On Sat, 1 Dec 2007, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> > > > Yeah, that could work. Have a header with stuff like this:
> > > >
> > > > typedef u16 __attribute__((aligned(2))) aligned_u16;
> > > > typedef u32 __attribute__((aligned(4))) aligned_u32;
> > >
> > > I gave it a try:
> > 
> > This seems to turn a molehill into a mountain.
> > 
> > We can change that mod_devicetable.h at any time; it's not supposed to be a 
> > userspace API (the kernel build system doesn't count).
> 
> module-init-tools is userspace and not shipped as part of the kernel 
> build system...

Not really an issue, so long as I get a head's up, but we'll force users
to upgrade so let's be sure we want to do this/everyone's happy.

Jon.


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