Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262353AbTIHONj (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2003 10:13:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262360AbTIHONj (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2003 10:13:39 -0400 Received: from pc1-cwma1-5-cust4.swan.cable.ntl.com ([80.5.120.4]:54402 "EHLO dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262353AbTIHONi (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2003 10:13:38 -0400 Subject: Re: kernel header separation From: Alan Cox To: David Woodhouse Cc: Matthew Wilcox , Erik Andersen , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <1063028303.32473.333.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> References: <20030902191614.GR13467@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20030903014908.GB1601@codepoet.org> <20030905144154.GL18654@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20030905211604.GB16993@codepoet.org> <20030905232212.GP18654@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <1063028303.32473.333.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1063030329.21310.32.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.4 (1.4.4-5) Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 15:12:10 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 780 Lines: 17 On Llu, 2003-09-08 at 14:38, David Woodhouse wrote: > > __u8 has a very precise meaning defined by Linux. If you're including > > a Linux header. that's what you need to worry about. > > It's a kernel-private type. If we're aiming for a clean set of headers, > then ideally we should avoid gratuitously defining our own types when > standards already exist. __u8 is intended to be used by non kernel stuff for headers. Thats why "__u8" not "u8" - so it doesnt pollute the sacred posix name space and have us lynched by glibc people - 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/