Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 15:16:04 -0600
From: Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel header separation
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On Fri Sep 05, 2003 at 03:41:54PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> 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 ;-(

They may be ugly, but they are standardized and have very 
precise meanings defined by ISO C99, which is a very good
thing for code interoperability...

 -Erik

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