Re: Patch: linux-2.5.30: return hd_driveid to <linux/hdreg.h>

[Marcin Dalecki]

Użytkownik Adam J. Richter napisał:
> 	IDE-108 moved struct hd_driveid from linux/hdreg.h to
> linux/ide.h.  However, user level code in pcmcia-cs-3.2.0/cardmgr/ide-info.c
> refers to hd_driveid, and including <linux/ide.h> results in a flood
> of conflicts with GNU C library headers.
> 
> 	The following patch returns struct hd_driveid to include/linux/hdreg.h
> and changes its u{8,16,32,64} references to __u{8,16,32,64} (which are
> types that the linux include files export for user level programs).
> 
> 	I have rebuilt the core kernel, drivers/{ide,scsi} and
> pcmcia-cs-3.2.0 with this change.  It fixes the pcmcia-cs-3.2.0
> compilation problems and does not appear to cause any new compilation
> errors in the kernel.

Please don't. This structure is not a property of the Linux kernel.
This struture is something which should simply be redeclared in 
pcmcia-cs and handled there. It is a "bug" on behalf of pcmcia-cs to
rely on the fact that accidentally some random kernel header
is daclaring it as well.