On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 02:22:43PM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > (+cc: some possible relevant people) > Hi, > > Guillem Jover wrote: > > > On BSD systems __unused has traditionally been defined to mean the > > equivalent of gcc's __attribute__((__unused__)), some parts of the > > Linux tree use that convention too (e.g. perf). The problem comes when > > defining such macro while trying to build unmodified source code with > > BSD origins on systems with Linux headers. > > > > Rename the user visible struct members from __unused to __unused0 to > > not cause compilation failures due to that macro, which should not be > > a problem as those members are supposed to be private anyway. ^__ is reserved for libc internal stuff and there is no reason to name the unused/padding members "__unused". So one or a set of patches that rename them all to something more sensible would be fine. Sam -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
