Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758120AbZARDjx (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:39:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751404AbZARDjf (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:39:35 -0500 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:33035 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751382AbZARDjd (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:39:33 -0500 Subject: Re: [GIT PULL -tip] fix 33 make headers_check warnings From: Jaswinder Singh Rajput To: Kyle McMartin Cc: Sam Ravnborg , David Woodhouse , Ingo Molnar , x86 maintainers , urs.thuermann@volkswagen.de, oliver.hartkopp@volkswagen.de, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, netfilter@vger.kernel.org, bfields@fieldses.org, neilb@suse.de, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net, spi-devel-general@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, greg@kroah.com, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, tiwai@suse.de, mchehab@infradead.org, LKML , Andrew Morton In-Reply-To: <20090118033339.GA671@bombadil.infradead.org> References: <1232223441.3966.22.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1232228261.27094.0.camel@macbook.infradead.org> <20090117221932.GA4956@uranus.ravnborg.org> <1232247901.3097.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20090118033339.GA671@bombadil.infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 09:08:24 +0530 Message-Id: <1232249904.3097.15.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.2 (2.24.2-3.fc10) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 885 Lines: 27 On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 22:33 -0500, Kyle McMartin wrote: > On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 08:35:01AM +0530, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote: > > Hello Sam, David, > > > > /home/jaswinder/jaswinder-git/linux-2.6-tip/usr/include/mtd/jffs2-user.h:20: extern's make no sense in userspace > > > > This file is for userspace only, and it makes sense where it's used > (mtd-utils.) > > In general though, this file doesn't actually depend on the kernel and > could be entirely provided from the userspace library. > If this file is _ONLY_ for userspace and kernel cannot use it then what is the point of keeping this file in kernel headers. -- JSR -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/