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Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 18:09:37 +0200
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To: bhards@bigpond.net.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com
Subject: Re: Header files and the kernel ABI
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    Hi Brad & HPA :)

>> already-established __kernel_ namespace, and of course __s* and __u*
>> could be used for specific types.
>I like it (having just argued for it), except for the __s* and __u*.
[...]
>Please, let us agree that the ABI definition should use standard
>types wherever possible.

    I think so. Moreover, any user-space developer should be familiar
with them and anyone may even use the standard ones by mistake, so
it's better to get them equal and be standard.

    Ra?l
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