[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/4] drm: fix headers to include linux/types.h

[Randy Dunlap]

On Thu, 2 Dec 2010 05:55:59 +1000 Dave Airlie wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 5:38 AM, Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 1 Dec 2010 17:54:18 +0100
> > Julien Cristau <jcristau at debian.org> wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, Dec  1, 2010 at 17:10:42 +0200, Alexander Shishkin wrote:
> >>
> >> > For headers that get exported to userland and make use of u32 style
> >> > type names, it is advised to include linux/types.h.
> >> >
> >> > This fixes 5 headers_check warnings.
> >> >
> >> How many times does this need to be NAKed?
> >
> > Until someone gets a clue and puts comments in there explaining this?
> 
> how about someone fixing the dumb scripts to understand that C header
> includes aren't single level.

Still, drm is an exception here, so it needs to be documented as such.


> Like 10 people have posted this patch and not one has come back with a
> fix for the app after I pointed it out, like really if people think
> they can write C good enough to send kernel patches,
> maybe they could put some more effort in and actually fix a real problem.
> 
> We should start hashing signed-off-by's so people can't get any glory from them.

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~Randy
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