Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 00:22:12 +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 Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 03:16:04PM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:
> On Fri Sep 05, 2003 at 03:41:54PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > 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...

__u8 has a very precise meaning defined by Linux.  If you're including
a Linux header. that's what you need to worry about.

-- 
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