On Thu, 2012-04-26 at 20:07 +0200, Hauke Mehrtens wrote: > The patch series moves the compat code from include/linux/compat-*.h > into new files with the same name as the file where this code is placed > in the mainline kernel. With this approach we do not have to include > all include/linux/compat-*.h files in the build process any more, but > we extend the existing header files by the code needed. > > This compiles without any warnings for me with kernel 3.2 to 3.4 and > fixes the problems with pr_fmt() without the need of any patch. > Sometimes I had problems compiling compat-wireless, because some header > file I would not like to include was included because of compat-2.6.h > included mostly every header file available in the kernel. > > This patch series is only done to support kernel >= 3.2, supporting the > other versions is just more work, but I want to have some responses on > this first. There are probably some other problems and some more > cleanup is possible. > In the end we will remove the include/linux/compat-*.h files. > > I have a problem where compat does changes to header files provided by > compat-wireless like #define NL80211_FEATURE_SK_TX_STATUS 0 in compat- > 2.6.33.h. To make this work we should add an other include directory in > compat-wireless. > The hierarchy of include directories should be this: 1. include dir > from compat, 2. include dir from compat-wireless, 3. the kernel include > dir, now the 1. and the 2. are but into one directory. I think this is worthwhile. There may be some issues with it, particularly when header files are renamed, but I think those can be solved relatively easily, like we already did with tracing. johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
