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[PATCH] Avoid namespace pollution in <asm/param.h>

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In commit 3D59121003721a8fad11ee72e646fd9d3076b5679c, the x86 and x86-64
<asm/param.h> was changed to include <linux/config.h> for the
configurable timer frequency.

However, asm/param.h is sometimes used in userland (it is included
indirectly from <sys/param.h>), so your commit pollutes the userland
namespace with tons of CONFIG_FOO macros.  This greatly confuses
software packages (such as BusyBox) which use CONFIG_FOO macros
themselves to control the inclusion of optional features.

After a short exchange, Christoph approved this patch

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Dag-Erling Smrgrav 2006-01-02 15:57:06 +01:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent f12f4d9030
commit abe842eb98
2 changed files with 2 additions and 4 deletions
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include/asm-i386/param.h
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#include <linux/config.h>
#ifndef _ASMi386_PARAM_H
#define _ASMi386_PARAM_H
#ifdef __KERNEL__
# include <linux/config.h>
# define HZ CONFIG_HZ /* Internal kernel timer frequency */
# define USER_HZ 100 /* .. some user interfaces are in "ticks" */
# define CLOCKS_PER_SEC (USER_HZ) /* like times() */

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include/asm-x86_64/param.h
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#include <linux/config.h>
#ifndef _ASMx86_64_PARAM_H
#define _ASMx86_64_PARAM_H
#ifdef __KERNEL__
# include <linux/config.h>
# define HZ CONFIG_HZ /* Internal kernel timer frequency */
# define USER_HZ 100 /* .. some user interfaces are in "ticks */
#define CLOCKS_PER_SEC (USER_HZ) /* like times() */