From: Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel header separation
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 15:10:23 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030905211022.GA16993@codepoet.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1062772560.32473.25.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com>
On Fri Sep 05, 2003 at 03:36:01PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 19:49 -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:
> > Header files intended for use by users should probably drop
> > linux/types.h just include <stdint.h>,,, Then convert the
> > types over to ISO C99 types.
>
> Yes. Absolutely. In fact, we should do the rest of the kernel with as
> much fervour as we've been changing struct initialisers... but at least
> the user headers would be a good start.
Absolutely!!!
-Erik
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-05 21:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-02 19:16 kernel header separation Matthew Wilcox
2003-09-03 1:49 ` Erik Andersen
2003-09-05 14:36 ` David Woodhouse
2003-09-05 21:10 ` Erik Andersen [this message]
2003-09-05 14:41 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-09-05 21:16 ` Erik Andersen
2003-09-05 23:22 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-09-08 13:38 ` David Woodhouse
2003-09-08 14:12 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-08 14:25 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-08 14:31 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-08 14:32 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-08 14:42 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-09-08 15:22 ` Andreas Schwab
2003-09-08 14:37 ` Andreas Schwab
2003-09-08 20:23 ` David Garfield
2003-09-08 20:34 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-09-08 21:05 ` David Garfield
2003-09-08 20:43 ` Erik Andersen
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