From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Organization: wh0rd.org
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86 byteorder.h: use __asm__/__inline__ for userspace
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 04:21:35 -0500
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Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com,
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On Saturday 27 December 2008 03:47:08 Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 01:50:04AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > Use __asm__/__inline__ rather than asm/inline for all the functions
> > > exported to userspace.
> >
> > I will imagine that we will see cleanup patches converting
> > these back to inline/asm.
> > How about doing this conversion as part of the headers_install.pl
> > script so we know it is always correct?
> >
> > Then we can keep the familiar inline/asm in the kernel headers
> > and always use the correct __asm__, __inline__ version for our
> > exported headers.
>
> or name it __asm__exported__ to make sure it isnt cleaned up away.

i think we can try the automated approach first as that'll make things easi=
er=20
on everyone ... but if it doesnt work out, this sounds like a reasonable=20
solution to keep things sane.
=2Dmike

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