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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] bogus definitions and declarations in kexec.h

To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] bogus definitions and declarations in kexec.h
From: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:59:40 +0900
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On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 08:53:50AM +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
> These definitions (and in particular the function declarations) don't
> really belong in the interface headers - each OS ought to define what
> it needs on its own. They conflict with definitions in Linux 2.6.24+,
> but in order to not break the build for older Linux this patch just
> makes them conditional (which is sufficient to resolve the conflict
> as long as the Xen header is always included after the Linux one).
> 
> Along with the patch goes the request to sync the linux tree's public
> headers once again.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

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