Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753185Ab0DMLIX (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Apr 2010 07:08:23 -0400 Received: from stinky.trash.net ([213.144.137.162]:47197 "EHLO stinky.trash.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753035Ab0DMLIW (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Apr 2010 07:08:22 -0400 Message-ID: <4BC450A4.1010200@trash.net> Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:08:20 +0200 From: Patrick McHardy User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090701) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexey Dobriyan CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, shemminger@vyatta.com, bhutchings@solarflare.com, andreas@fatal.se, hadi@cyberus.ca, hideaki@yoshifuji.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] xtables: make XT_ALIGN() usable in exported headers by exporting __ALIGN_KERNEL() References: <20100407162245.GA4557@x200> <4BC437C6.8020602@trash.net> <4BC44117.80901@trash.net> <20100414120712.GA25686@x200> In-Reply-To: <20100414120712.GA25686@x200> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 927 Lines: 21 Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > XT_ALIGN() was rewritten through ALIGN() by commit 42107f5009da223daa800d6da6904d77297ae829 > "netfilter: xtables: symmetric COMPAT_XT_ALIGN definition". > ALIGN() is not exported in userspace headers, which created compile problem for tc(8) > and will create problem for iptables(8). > > We can't export generic looking name ALIGN() but we can export less generic > __ALIGN_KERNEL() (suggested by Ben Hutchings). > Google knows nothing about __ALIGN_KERNEL(). > > COMPAT_XT_ALIGN() changed for symmetry. I've already pushed your change out, could you send me an incremental fix please? master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kaber/nf-next-2.6.git -- 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/