On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 13 May 2014, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> On Tuesday 13 May 2014 18:17:40 Ley Foon Tan wrote:
>> > When we export this posix_types.h file for user software, they need to
>> > define this config, eg: CONFIG_32BIT_TIME to use 32 bit time. Is this
>> > what we want to do?
>>
>> No, this doesn't really work: You can't use CONFIG_* symbols in
>> user-visible header files.
>
> Then make the config symbol generate the header from a template.
Indeed. I think it's worthwhile to add CONFIG_* expansion for such "hard"
CONFIG symbols to make headers_install, cfr. the existing unifdef support.
We do such a hard work to improve asm-generic, so new architectures can
just use that, only to see early adaptors now having to migrate away from it
(e.g. OpenRISC suddenly gaining uapi/asm/posix_types.h).
Or is there another solution?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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