Markus,

On 27/12/14 18:03, Markus Pargmann wrote:
> Hi Antonio,
> 
> On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 03:30:53PM +0100, Antonio Quartulli wrote:
>> Hi Markus,
>>
>> first of all you should know that I really appreciate your hard work.
>> Thank you very much for this!
>>
>> On 26/12/14 12:41, Markus Pargmann wrote:
>>> Signed-off-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de>
>>> ---
>>>  packet.h | 5 +++++
>>>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/packet.h b/packet.h
>>> index facd1feddd4e..5fd0d814b6de 100644
>>> --- a/packet.h
>>> +++ b/packet.h
>>> @@ -18,6 +18,11 @@
>>>  #ifndef _NET_BATMAN_ADV_PACKET_H_
>>>  #define _NET_BATMAN_ADV_PACKET_H_
>>>  
>>> +#ifdef __KERNEL__
>>> +#include <linux/bitops.h>
>>> +#include <uapi/linux/if_ether.h>
>>> +#endif /* __KERNEL__ */
>>
>> Unfortunately we can't do this :-(
>>
>> Patches sent to the kernel cannot contain conditional code on being in
>> the kernel or not (same is true for checks against a particular kernel
>> version - such code can't be in the kernel).
>>
>> Patches sent to the kernel must assume that they are only for the kernel
>> (and for that particular version we are sending the patches against).
> 
> Oh, I checked by grepping through the kernel before changing the patch
> like this.
> 	git grep "^#if.*def.*__KERNEL__" | grep -v include | wc -l
> 	145
> 
> So there are 145 uses of an ifdef __KERNEL__ outside of include
> directories (I excluded include directories as they may be exported to
> userspace). So I thought it would be ok.

these are probably pieces of code that have not yet been cleaned up.
Still, this does not allow us to introduce more code like this: David
(the networking tree maintainer) would refuse such additions.


Cheers,

-- 
Antonio Quartulli