Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272002AbTHRPWF (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2003 11:22:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272046AbTHRPWF (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2003 11:22:05 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:20155 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272002AbTHRPWB (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2003 11:22:01 -0400 Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 08:21:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl cc: Dominik.Strasser@t-online.de, , , Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: [PATCH] scsi.h uses "u8" which isn't defined. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 607 Lines: 18 On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote: > > I see that Linus already applied this, but I am quite unhappy with > these changes. Entirely needlessly user space software is broken. If it's supposed to be exported to user space, it _still_ must not use "u_char", since that isn't namespace-clean. If it needs exporting, it must use "__u8". Linus - 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/