# Re: \[PATCH 41/45\] include/uapi/sound/emu10k1.h: hide gpr\_valid, tram\_valid and code\_valid in userspace

- From: Takashi Iwai \<hidden\>
- Date: 2015-03-11 06:11:23 
- List: linux-api
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-api/2015/03/4448136
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/alsa-devel/2015/02/4432069/t.md

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At Wed, 11 Mar 2015 03:22:04 +0200,
Mikko Rapeli wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 07:27:38AM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Tue, 17 Feb 2015 00:05:44 +0100,
> > Mikko Rapeli wrote:
> > > 
> > > The DECLARE_BITMAP macro is not available in userspace headers.
> > > Fixes userspace compile error:
> > > error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘DECLARE_BITMAP’
> > 
> > It's nonsense.  This results in an incompatible structure, thus ABI
> > would be broken completely (actually this will break the compile of
> > ld10k1).
> 
> None of the exported headers after 'make headers_install' have definition
> of DECLARE_BITMAP macro. It is defined in include/linux/types.h which is
> different from include/uapi/linux/types.h and missing this definition and
> a few other things.
> 
> One option would be add DECLARE_BITMAP macro to include/uapi/linux/types.h
> and add include/linux/bitops.h to uapi.
> 
> Thoughts?

Are there any other headers like that?  If this is the only one, leave
it as is.  The only program that reads this are some alsa-tools ones
and they have already own DECLARE_BITMAP() definition.  Adding the
extra definition here will even break the compilation out of sudden.


Takashi
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