headers_check: special case seqbuf_dump()
authorPaul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Thu, 23 Jan 2014 23:54:08 +0000 (15:54 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 24 Jan 2014 00:36:55 +0000 (16:36 -0800)
commita7e1d98f3e2a0d858fddcac7c66b78b6dcfd9d2e
tree0356a6bacbdaf9913ed82f0cd5c66291bcac3366
parent59d42cd43c7335a3a8081fd6ee54ea41b0c239be
headers_check: special case seqbuf_dump()

"make headers_check" warns about soundcard.h for (at least) five years
now:
    [...]/usr/include/linux/soundcard.h:1054: userspace cannot reference function or variable defined in the kernel

We're apparently stuck with providing OSSlib-3.8 compatibility, so let's
special case this declaration just to silence it.

Notes:

0) Support for OSSlib post 3.8 was already removed in commit 43a990765a
   ("sound: Remove OSSlib stuff from linux/soundcard.h").  Five years have
   passed since that commit: do people still care about OSSlib-3.8?  If
   not, quite a bit of code could be remove from soundcard.h (and probably
   ultrasound.h).

2) By the way, what is actually meant by:
    It is no longer possible to actually link against OSSlib with this
    header, but we still provide these macros for programs using them.

Doesn't that mean compatibility to OSSlib isn't even useful?

3) Anyhow, a previous discussion soundcard.h, which led to that commit,
   starts at https://lkml.org/lkml/2009/1/20/349 .

4) And, yes, I sneaked in a whitespace fix.

Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
scripts/headers_check.pl