Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 19:57:27 +0100
From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com,
       hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86 byteorder.h: use __asm__/__inline__ for userspace
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On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 09:47:08AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> 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 wnet with the scripted conversion for now.
If that does not fly we can come back to this proposal.

What I like most with the auto conversion is that we avoid
adding yet another special rule about how to do stuff in exported headers.

	Sam
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