On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 17:51 -0700, Gilbert, John wrote:
> Hello,
> The use of "new" as a variable name in the macro "__cmpxchg" breaks
> builds of other programs that link to include/asm-i386/system.h
> I'd like to request that this be renamed to something else, like mynew
> or krnew.
mynew is for beginner programmers (and perl scripts!). The normal
convention is to add a "k" as in printk or ksoftirqd, so it should be
"knew". But who knew?
Besides, what programs are you compiling that are using kernel headers?
That's always a no-no. Although I did notice that errno.h on debian
includes bits/errno.h which includes linux/errno.h. But that's the
distribution's linux headers, and I don't see any header including
asm/system.h
> Thanks.
> John Gilbert
> [email protected]
>
> -----------------------------------------
> This message (including any attachments) may contain confidential
> information intended for a specific individual and purpose. If you are not
> the intended recipient, delete this message. If you are not the intended
> recipient, disclosing, copying, distributing, or taking any action based on
> this message is strictly prohibited.
Is this a joke? It doesn't make sense sending a disclaimer like this to
a mailing list!
-- Steve
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
[Index of Archives]
[Kernel Newbies]
[Netfilter]
[Bugtraq]
[Photo]
[Stuff]
[Gimp]
[Yosemite News]
[MIPS Linux]
[ARM Linux]
[Linux Security]
[Linux RAID]
[Video 4 Linux]
[Linux for the blind]
[Linux Resources]
