Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932439AbZABV75 (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jan 2009 16:59:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759574AbZABV7j (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jan 2009 16:59:39 -0500 Received: from ns2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:56937 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759304AbZABV7i (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jan 2009 16:59:38 -0500 From: Andreas Schwab To: Mike Frysinger Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Sam Ravnborg , David Woodhouse , Jan Engelhardt , Patrick McHardy , "David S. Miller" , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] linux/types.h: always export 64bit aligned defines References: <1230885562-11456-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org> <200901021547.32666.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Yow: I know things about TROY DONAHUE that can't even be PRINTED!! Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:59:35 +0100 In-Reply-To: <200901021547.32666.vapier@gentoo.org> (Mike Frysinger's message of "Fri, 2 Jan 2009 15:47:30 -0500") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110009 (No Gnus v0.9) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1070 Lines: 28 Mike Frysinger writes: > On Friday 02 January 2009 09:24:39 Andreas Schwab wrote: >> Mike Frysinger writes: >> > These these defines dont actually conflict with normal userspace / C >> > library types, there's no reason to hide them behind the >> > __KERNEL_STRICT_NAMES define. >> >> aligned_u64 would pollute the name space, wouldn't it? > > if by "pollute the name space" you mean "it'll be defined where it normally > wasnt before", then yes. I mean that it may conflict with normal userspace which is the whole point of being hidden. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra?e 5, 90409 N?rnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." -- 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/