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Bug#415095: marked as done (linux-kernel-headers: please revert addition of typedef for __kernel_dev_t in linux/types.h)

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Package: linux-kernel-headers
Version: 2.6.18-7
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

Way back in the days of bug#220991, the following two lines of code were
added to /usr/include/linux/types.h:

   /* For util-linux / cryptoloop.  How lame.  */
   typedef __u32 __kernel_dev_t;

These are no longer needed -- both util-linux and cryptsetup build from
source just fine if I remove them.  What's more, having this typedef in
types.h causes an FTBS of uclibc for almost all architectures (arm has
been hacked to make it work) -- see bug#269721, which could be closed
if this code was removed.  In fact, it was in trying to build uclibc for
ia64 and i386 that I stumbled across this problem.

Here's the patch:

--- types.h.orig	2007-03-15 18:46:00.000000000 -0600
+++ types.h	2007-03-15 18:46:22.000000000 -0600
@@ -7,8 +7,6 @@
 /* For other kernel headers.  */
 # include <linux/posix_types.h>
 # include <asm/types.h>
-/* For util-linux / cryptoloop.  How lame.  */
-typedef __u32 __kernel_dev_t;
 #else
 
 #ifdef	__KERNEL__


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Architecture: i386 (i686)
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Version: 2.6.22-1

fixed in newer linux-libc-dev.

protected by __KERNEL_STRICT_NAMES

-- 
maks

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