In order to allow commonly included headers such as string.h to access typedefs such as wchar_t without running into issues with the rest of the NLS library, refactor the typedefs out into their own header that can be included in a much safer manner.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko andy@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor nathan@kernel.org --- include/linux/nls.h | 19 +------------------ include/linux/nls_types.h | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/nls.h b/include/linux/nls.h index e0bf8367b274..3d416d1f60b6 100644 --- a/include/linux/nls.h +++ b/include/linux/nls.h @@ -3,24 +3,7 @@ #define _LINUX_NLS_H
#include <linux/init.h> - -/* Unicode has changed over the years. Unicode code points no longer - * fit into 16 bits; as of Unicode 5 valid code points range from 0 - * to 0x10ffff (17 planes, where each plane holds 65536 code points). - * - * The original decision to represent Unicode characters as 16-bit - * wchar_t values is now outdated. But plane 0 still includes the - * most commonly used characters, so we will retain it. The newer - * 32-bit unicode_t type can be used when it is necessary to - * represent the full Unicode character set. - */ - -/* Plane-0 Unicode character */ -typedef u16 wchar_t; -#define MAX_WCHAR_T 0xffff - -/* Arbitrary Unicode character */ -typedef u32 unicode_t; +#include <linux/nls_types.h>
struct nls_table { const char *charset; diff --git a/include/linux/nls_types.h b/include/linux/nls_types.h new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..9479df1016da --- /dev/null +++ b/include/linux/nls_types.h @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */ +#ifndef _LINUX_NLS_TYPES_H +#define _LINUX_NLS_TYPES_H + +#include <linux/types.h> + +/* + * Unicode has changed over the years. Unicode code points no longer + * fit into 16 bits; as of Unicode 5 valid code points range from 0 + * to 0x10ffff (17 planes, where each plane holds 65536 code points). + * + * The original decision to represent Unicode characters as 16-bit + * wchar_t values is now outdated. But plane 0 still includes the + * most commonly used characters, so we will retain it. The newer + * 32-bit unicode_t type can be used when it is necessary to + * represent the full Unicode character set. + */ + +/* Plane-0 Unicode character */ +typedef u16 wchar_t; +#define MAX_WCHAR_T 0xffff + +/* Arbitrary Unicode character */ +typedef u32 unicode_t; + +#endif /* _LINUX_NLS_TYPES_H */