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Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:35:45 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: auto-convert size types in userspace headers
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Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 06:12:33AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> Rather than constantly fixing up size type breakage in userspace headers,
>> auto convert the types u_intXX_t, uintXX_t, intXX_t, uXX, and sXX to the
>> appropriate __uXX or __sXX type.
> 
> Is this the right thing to do?
> uintXX_t belongs to a namespace that the kernel should not use.
> 
> So being restrictive here would be better I think.

That's the whole point right here.

All of these types can be -- and are -- used by the kernel internally,
but should only be exported as __uXX or __sXX.

This is the auto-conversion idea I brought up earlier.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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