From: Daniel Phillips <dphillips@sistina.com>
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Organization: Sistina
To: dm-devel@sistina.com, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
       Joe Thornber <thornber@sistina.com>
Subject: Re: [dm-devel] Re: [RFC] device-mapper ioctl interface
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 22:03:50 +0200
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On Friday 06 June 2003 19:17, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 10:39:43AM +0100, Joe Thornber wrote:
> > Here's the header file for the the proposed new ioctl interface for
> > dm.  We've tried to change as little as possible to minimise code
> > changes in LVM2 and EVMS.
>
> Minor comment:
> 	- please do not use uint_32t types in kernel header files.  Use
> 	  the proper __u32 type which is guarenteed to be the proper
> 	  size across the user/kernel boundry.

We even have a flavor without the __'s:

   http://lxr.linux.no/source/include/asm-i386/types.h?v=2.5.56#L47

A little easier on the eyes, imho.

Regards,

Daniel

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