Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762837AbZAUAIt (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:08:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756870AbZAUAIk (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:08:40 -0500 Received: from mail.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:52386 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756371AbZAUAIk (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:08:40 -0500 Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:08:37 +0100 Message-ID: From: Takashi Iwai To: Jaswinder Singh Rajput Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, Sam Ravnborg , Ingo Molnar , LKML Subject: Re: usr/include/linux/soundcard.h warnings for 'make headers_check' In-Reply-To: <1232465902.3088.31.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1232465902.3088.31.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.12.0 (Your Wildest Dreams) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.7 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Sanj=F2?=) APEL/10.6 Emacs/22.3 (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1478 Lines: 30 At Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:08:22 +0530, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote: > > usr/include/linux/soundcard.h is giving following warnings for 'make headers_check': > usr/include/linux/soundcard.h:1047: extern's make no sense in userspace > usr/include/linux/soundcard.h:1048: extern's make no sense in userspace > usr/include/linux/soundcard.h:1049: extern's make no sense in userspace > usr/include/linux/soundcard.h:1050: extern's make no sense in userspace > usr/include/linux/soundcard.h:1051: extern's make no sense in userspace > usr/include/linux/soundcard.h:1053: extern's make no sense in userspace > usr/include/linux/soundcard.h:1055: extern's make no sense in userspace > usr/include/linux/soundcard.h:1056: extern's make no sense in userspace > usr/include/linux/soundcard.h:1061: extern's make no sense in userspace > usr/include/linux/soundcard.h:1062: extern's make no sense in userspace > usr/include/linux/soundcard.h:1078: extern's make no sense in userspace > usr/include/linux/soundcard.h:1079: extern's make no sense in userspace > > Do we need to fix these warnings. No, these are declarations for OSS-lib. It doesn't belong to kernel, but it's better to keep it for compatibility in some way. Takashi -- 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/