Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263522AbTETEAW (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2003 00:00:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263535AbTETEAW (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2003 00:00:22 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([63.209.29.3]:45191 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263522AbTETEAS (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2003 00:00:18 -0400 Message-ID: <3EC9AB3F.1090802@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 21:12:47 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030211 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, sv MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Miles Bader CC: David Woodhouse , "Eric W. Biederman" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Recent changes to sysctl.h breaks glibc References: <20030519165623.GA983@mars.ravnborg.org> <3EC95B58.7080807@zytor.com> <3EC9660D.2000203@zytor.com> <1053392095.21582.48.camel@imladris.demon.co.uk> <3EC9803F.6010701@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 760 Lines: 32 Miles Bader wrote: > "H. Peter Anvin" writes: > >>Types use the __kernel_* namespace *only*; structures use struct __kernel_*. > > > What, do you mean _every_ kernel internal type would use such names? > That's completely horrid... > No, I don't mean that. The kernel-internal headers would typedef these to different names, e.g. /* linux/types.h */ #include /* Kernel internal types */ typedef __kernel_dev64_t dev_t; typedef __kernel_ino_t ino_t; ... etc ... -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/