From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@uk.sistina.com>
To: dm-devel@sistina.com
Cc: Linux Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [dm-devel] Re: [RFC] device-mapper ioctl interface
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 20:53:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030606205308.B12727@uk.sistina.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030606171700.GC12231@kroah.com>; from greg@kroah.com on Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 10:17:00AM -0700
On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 10:17:00AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> Minor comment:
> - please do not use uint_32t types in kernel header files. Use
> the proper __u32 type which is guarenteed to be the proper
> size across the user/kernel boundry.
So is uint32_t:
linux/types.h: typedef __u32 uint32_t;
I think this comment is about style conformity i.e. most linux kernel
developers avoid these (not-so-)new and more-portable C99 types.
Alasdair
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agk@uk.sistina.com
Refs. http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/ch10.html
http://www.unix-systems.org/whitepapers/64bit.html
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-06 19:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-05 9:39 [RFC] device-mapper ioctl interface Joe Thornber
2003-06-05 16:47 ` Kevin Corry
2003-06-05 17:00 ` [dm-devel] " Daniel Phillips
2003-06-05 17:50 ` Kevin Corry
2003-06-05 18:53 ` Daniel Phillips
2003-06-05 19:41 ` Joe Thornber
2003-06-06 16:11 ` Kevin Corry
2003-06-06 17:17 ` Greg KH
2003-06-06 19:53 ` Alasdair G Kergon [this message]
2003-06-09 20:03 ` [dm-devel] " Daniel Phillips
2003-06-09 20:39 ` Greg KH
2003-06-09 21:39 ` Daniel Phillips
2003-06-09 22:08 ` Daniel Phillips
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