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Re: [PATCH] taint/module: Fix problems when out-of-kernel driver defines true or false

From Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] taint/module: Fix problems when out-of-kernel driver defines true or false
Date 2017-01-02 07:00 +0100
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On Sun, Jan 01, 2017 at 08:25:25PM -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
> Commit 7fd8329ba502 ("taint/module: Clean up global and module taint
> flags handling") used the key words true and false as character members
> of a new struct. These names cause problems when out-of-kernel modules
> such as VirtualBox include their own definitions of true and false.

Whuch they should not define, so fix them, just like you;d fix them for
everything else that would conflict with something in kernel headers.

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[PATCH] taint/module: Fix problems when out-of-kernel driver defines true or false Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> - 2017-01-02 03:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] taint/module: Fix problems when out-of-kernel driver  defines true or false Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2017-01-02 07:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] taint/module: Fix problems when out-of-kernel driver  defines true or false Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> - 2017-01-02 12:00 +0100

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