From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: Dimitris Michailidis <dm@chelsio.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] cxgb4: Add register, message, and FW definitions
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:09:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100330140928.3a9c3f34@nehalam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1269975142-30896-2-git-send-email-dm@chelsio.com>
On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:52:17 -0800
Dimitris Michailidis <dm@chelsio.com> wrote:
> +union opcode_tid {
> + __be32 opcode_tid;
> + __u8 opcode;
> +};
> +
The intent of the __types like __u8 etc are that these types
should only be used by structures that are part in some way of
a kernel to userspace API. Any structures which are only used
in the kernel should just use the regular type (ie u8).
I say intent because many places do not follow this practice.
--
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-30 21:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-30 18:52 [PATCH 0/6] updated cxgb4 submission Dimitris Michailidis
2010-03-30 18:52 ` [PATCH 1/6] cxgb4: Add register, message, and FW definitions Dimitris Michailidis
2010-03-30 18:52 ` [PATCH 2/6] cxgb4: Add HW and FW support code Dimitris Michailidis
2010-03-30 18:52 ` [PATCH 3/6] cxgb4: Add packet queues and packet DMA code Dimitris Michailidis
2010-03-30 18:52 ` [PATCH 4/6] cxgb4: Add remaining driver headers and L2T management Dimitris Michailidis
2010-03-30 18:52 ` [PATCH 5/6] cxgb4: Add main driver file and driver Makefile Dimitris Michailidis
2010-03-30 18:52 ` [PATCH 6/6] net: Hook up cxgb4 to Kconfig and Makefile Dimitris Michailidis
2010-03-30 21:19 ` [PATCH 5/6] cxgb4: Add main driver file and driver Makefile Stephen Hemminger
2010-03-31 1:34 ` Dimitris Michailidis
2010-03-31 5:50 ` David Miller
2010-03-31 19:31 ` Steve Wise
2010-03-31 21:13 ` David Miller
2010-04-01 0:19 ` Dimitris Michailidis
2010-04-01 0:24 ` David Miller
2010-04-01 1:34 ` Dimitris Michailidis
2010-04-01 2:18 ` David Miller
2010-03-30 21:09 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2010-03-31 1:25 ` [PATCH 1/6] cxgb4: Add register, message, and FW definitions Dimitris Michailidis
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2010-04-02 1:28 [PATCH 0/6] updated cxgb4 submission v6 Dimitris Michailidis
2010-04-02 1:28 ` [PATCH 1/6] cxgb4: Add register, message, and FW definitions Dimitris Michailidis
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