From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, Dominik.Strasser@t-online.de,
hch@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
torvalds@transmeta.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: [PATCH] scsi.h uses "u8" which isn't defined.
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 11:32:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030818153239.GC24693@gtf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0308180820470.1672-100000@home.osdl.org>
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 08:21:45AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
> >
> > I see that Linus already applied this, but I am quite unhappy with
> > these changes. Entirely needlessly user space software is broken.
>
> If it's supposed to be exported to user space, it _still_ must not use
> "u_char", since that isn't namespace-clean.
>
> If it needs exporting, it must use "__u8".
Maybe I am biased, but I actually prefer to use the C99 size-specific
types, when code will be used outside the kernel tree... even if that
userland code is entirely Linux-kernel-specific. I try to avoid "__u<size>"
since it's typically a gcc-specific type.
C99 gave us the tools, we should use them :)
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-18 15:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-18 12:19 [PATCH] Re: [PATCH] scsi.h uses "u8" which isn't defined Andries.Brouwer
2003-08-18 12:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-08-18 18:08 ` Sam Ravnborg
2003-08-18 18:14 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-18 15:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-08-18 15:32 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2003-08-18 16:13 ` Patrick Mansfield
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2003-08-18 12:36 Andries.Brouwer
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[not found] ` <lWLS.39x.5@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <lWLZ.39x.29@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-08-18 18:54 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-08-18 19:04 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-19 12:32 ` Rob Landley
2003-08-19 17:26 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-20 1:42 ` Erik Andersen
2003-08-20 23:48 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-08-21 0:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-22 0:32 ` Rob Landley
2003-08-22 0:50 ` Chris Friesen
2003-08-22 1:58 ` Rob Landley
2003-08-22 0:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-18 20:40 ` Sam Ravnborg
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