Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 15:41:54 +0100
From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
To: Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>, Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel header separation
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On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 07:49:09PM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:
> Header files intended for use by users should probably drop
> linux/types.h just include <stdint.h>,,,  Then convert the 
> types over to ISO C99 types.

stdint.h is a userspace header.  I suppose we could clone it for the
kernel, but I don't see any need to.

> s/__u8/uint8_t/g
> s/__u16/uint16_t/g
> s/__u32/uint32_t/g
> s/__u64/uint64_t/g

i think all these _t types are ugly ;-(

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