Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > I fear that the problem might be more widespread than just kvm. > The problem is that <linux/types.h> without __KERNEL_STRICT_NAMES > defines the standard types that glibc provides in its own <sys/types.h>, > some of them even defined differently (e.g. the size of off_t depends > __USE_FILE_OFFSET64). > > Subject: introduce <linux/strict_types.h> > Actually, if anything we should move the *non* __KERNEL_STRICT_NAMES out of <linux/types.h> into something else, or completely deep-six them. I don't know of any libc which wants these anymore, and I think they're just residual libc5 cruft. However, if we want <linux/extra_types.h> that's fine with me; but <linux/types.h> really should be clean, which means doing what __KERNEL_STRICT_NAMES does now. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
