Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:37:19 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>,
       Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Can we get warnings from the x86 userspace headers fixed?
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* Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 22:28 +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > Hi Ingo.
> > 
> > We have recently introduced a lot of new warnings for our
> > userspace headers.
> > 
> > Try to do a "make headers_check" and enjoy...
> > 
> > Are there any chance you could ask one of your helpers to
> > start to look into the x86 specific ones?
> > 
> > If we get x86 clean this would create more incentive to
> > make the generic clean too.
> > 
> > I had originally planned to attack the generic headers
> > (include/linux/*) but I'm faced by reality after my
> > vacation and has almost no spare time for the time being.
> > 
> > I already fixed the sparc headers but that is not 
> > visible compared to x86 (the fixes was btw easy).
> > 
> > I can try to help by doing a few reviews in the
> > beginning but I need to fix kbuild stuff first where
> > I have a few serious issues pending. And lacks time...
> > 
> 
> I'll have a go at some of them this afternoon unless someone beats me to 
> it.

thanks Harvey! Please work against tip/master if you do that, there's a 
few header file changes in the queue already.

	Ingo
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