From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
To: linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] time.h: include header before using time_t
Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2019 11:21:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191201112115.GA29870@blackberry> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191004174046.GA868@x1.vandijck-laurijssen.be>
On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 07:40:46PM +0200, Kurt Van Dijck wrote:
> On vr, 04 okt 2019 10:49:17 -0400, James Carlson wrote:
> > On 10/04/19 10:29, Kurt Van Dijck wrote:
> > > Now that I know that that file is used as include for kernel code, I'd
> > > rather include time.h in the userspace c-files.
> >
> > My point is that include/net/ isn't strictly userspace.
> >
> > If you feel the need, then go ahead and include <time.h> in user level
> > files. This just isn't one of those.
> >
> > If you must do this in ppp_def.h, then it needs to be guarded against
> > *all* of the systems where including a top-level header file inside a
> > kernel module is the wrong thing to do, not just "ifndef SOLARIS". Do
> > you know which systems those are? I can tell you that Solaris/Illumos
> > is at least one such system, but I can't tell you that it's *all* of them.
> >
> > I think this include is out of place here.
> ack
>
> I think you confirm 4x what I said, but I probably expressed myself
> badly, so "show me code!", I created this patch.
> It (1) works for me and (2) does not mix userspace headers in kernel
> space anywhere.
> Would this work for you?
>
> ---
> commit 567d505b1b8eff3d1579e849a4272d114f047bf3
> Author: Kurt Van Dijck <dev.kurt@vandijck-laurijssen.be>
> Date: Fri Oct 4 19:24:22 2019
>
> time.h: include header before using time_t
>
> Since include/net/ppp_defs.h is used in both kernelspace and userland
> makes it hard to put time.h include there.
> This commit fixes the problems in userspace code individually and leaves
> ppp_defs.h as-is.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kurt Van Dijck <dev.kurt@vandijck-laurijssen.be>
>
> diff --git a/pppd/plugins/rp-pppoe/pppoe-discovery.c b/pppd/plugins/rp-pppoe/pppoe-discovery.c
> index 8b2e946..f19c6d8 100644
> --- a/pppd/plugins/rp-pppoe/pppoe-discovery.c
> +++ b/pppd/plugins/rp-pppoe/pppoe-discovery.c
> @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
> #include <unistd.h>
> #include <errno.h>
> #include <string.h>
> +#include <time.h>
>
> #include "pppoe.h"
>
> diff --git a/pppd/sha1.c b/pppd/sha1.c
> index f4f975c..4e51cee 100644
> --- a/pppd/sha1.c
> +++ b/pppd/sha1.c
> @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
> /* #define SHA1HANDSOFF * Copies data before messing with it. */
>
> #include <string.h>
> +#include <time.h>
> #include <netinet/in.h> /* htonl() */
> #include <net/ppp_defs.h>
> #include "sha1.h"
I applied this patch.
Paul.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-01 11:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-04 17:40 [PATCH] time.h: include header before using time_t Kurt Van Dijck
2019-10-04 17:52 ` James Carlson
2019-10-04 18:33 ` Kurt Van Dijck
2019-10-04 20:10 ` James Carlson
2019-12-01 11:21 ` Paul Mackerras [this message]
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