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warn about use of uninstalled kernel headers

User applications frequently hit problems when they try to use
the kernel headers directly, rather than the exported headers.

This adds an explicit warning for this case, and points to
a URL holding an explanation of why this is wrong and what
to do about it.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Arnd Bergmann 15 年之前
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共有 2 个文件被更改,包括 7 次插入1 次删除
  1. 6 0
      include/linux/kernel.h
  2. 1 1
      scripts/headers_install.pl

+ 6 - 0
include/linux/kernel.h

@@ -659,6 +659,12 @@ extern int do_sysinfo(struct sysinfo *info);
 
 #endif /* __KERNEL__ */
 
+#ifndef __EXPORTED_HEADERS__
+#ifndef __KERNEL__
+#warning Attempt to use kernel headers from user space, see http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelHeaders
+#endif /* __KERNEL__ */
+#endif /* __EXPORTED_HEADERS__ */
+
 #define SI_LOAD_SHIFT	16
 struct sysinfo {
 	long uptime;			/* Seconds since boot */

+ 1 - 1
scripts/headers_install.pl

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ use strict;
 
 my ($readdir, $installdir, $arch, @files) = @ARGV;
 
-my $unifdef = "scripts/unifdef -U__KERNEL__";
+my $unifdef = "scripts/unifdef -U__KERNEL__ -D__EXPORTED_HEADERS__";
 
 foreach my $file (@files) {
 	local *INFILE;