Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 09:13:25 -0700
From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
To: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Cc: ttb@tentacle.dhs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [patch] inotify: make user visible types portable
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Robert wrote:
> The structure needs to be used exactly the same between the kernel and
> the user.  We both agree to that, right?  It is user visible.

Certainly the ABI, yes.  These stubborn beasts called computers that we
labour over just won't work otherwise.

I'd have no objections to the user header spelling "__u32" where the
kernel header spelled "u32".

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