From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751856AbWG0Gw3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jul 2006 02:52:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751859AbWG0Gw3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jul 2006 02:52:29 -0400 Received: from omx2-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.19]:10374 "EHLO omx2.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751856AbWG0Gw1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jul 2006 02:52:27 -0400 Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 23:51:15 -0700 From: Paul Jackson To: Nicholas Miell Cc: arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com, ricknu-0@student.ltu.se, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, jeff@garzik.org, adobriyan@gmail.com, vlobanov@speakeasy.net, jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de, getshorty_@hotmail.com, pwil3058@bigpond.net.au, mb@bu3sch.de, penberg@cs.helsinki.fi, stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de, larsbj@gullik.net Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] A generic boolean (version 6) Message-Id: <20060726235115.3772ec1e.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <1153978047.2807.5.camel@entropy> References: <1153341500.44be983ca1407@portal.student.luth.se> <1153945705.44c7d069c5e18@portal.student.luth.se> <200607270448.03257.arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com> <1153978047.2807.5.camel@entropy> Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.3; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Nicholas wrote: > If _Bool does end up in the user-kernel ABI I'd be inclined to not put a _Bool in that ABI. I'd stick with the scalar ints and such we have now. The benefits of compile type checking are weaker across that ABI, and the demands of compatibility much higher than they are for kernel internals. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.925.600.0401