Re: [patch] inotify: make user visible types portable

[David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>]

On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 18:30 -0400, Robert Love wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 18:25 -0400, Robert Love wrote:
> 
> > (speaking of which, we had 'mask' as an 'unsigned long' inside inotify.c,
> > so this change was needed anyhow).
> 
> Ugh.  We _also_ add mask sprinkled about as an int.
> 
> This patch makes those __u32 types, too.

Don't want for the cleanup of kernel headers to be done by someone else.
Stop polluting them more. Take the user-visible structures and put them
into a separate header file, possibly in a separate directory. Then
include that from your kernel header. Then there's _already_ a
'sanitised' header file for userspace. See the contents of include/mtd/
for an example, although I think there may be one or two things in there
I still need to clean up.

I probably still need to change some __u32 to uint32_t for portability,
for example. You should do that too.

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dwmw2