Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262311AbUCLQyn (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Mar 2004 11:54:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262328AbUCLQyn (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Mar 2004 11:54:43 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:4504 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262311AbUCLQym (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Mar 2004 11:54:42 -0500 Message-ID: <4051EB42.8060903@pobox.com> Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 11:54:26 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Eric W. Biederman" CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Eric Brower Subject: Re: [PATCH] ethtool.h should use userspace-accessible types References: <40511868.4060109@usa.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 581 Lines: 23 Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Eric Brower writes: > > >>Attached is a patch to 2.4's ethtool.h to use appropriate, userspace-accessible >>data types (__u8 and friends, rather than u8 and friends). > > > Why there is no #ifdef __KERNEL__ in this header to make it userspace > safe. Because it's not needed. Jeff - 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/