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    posix_types.h: Cleanup stale __NFDBITS and related definitions · 8ded2bbc
    Josh Boyer authored
    Recently, glibc made a change to suppress sign-conversion warnings in
    FD_SET (glibc commit ceb9e56b3d1).  This uncovered an issue with the
    kernel's definition of __NFDBITS if applications #include
    <linux/types.h> after including <sys/select.h>.  A build failure would
    be seen when passing the -Werror=sign-compare and -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
    flags to gcc.
    
    It was suggested that the kernel should either match the glibc
    definition of __NFDBITS or remove that entirely.  The current in-kernel
    uses of __NFDBITS can be replaced with BITS_PER_LONG, and there are no
    uses of the related __FDELT and __FDMASK defines.  Given that, we'll
    continue the cleanup that was started with commit 8b3d1cda
    ("posix_types: Remove fd_set macros") and drop the remaining unused
    macros.
    
    Additionally, linux/time.h has similar macros defined that expand to
    nothing so we'll remove those at the same time.
    Reported-by: default avatarJeff Law <law@redhat.com>
    Suggested-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJosh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
    [ .. and fix up whitespace as per akpm ]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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