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Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2017 10:37:22 -0500
From: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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On (02/20/17 10:19), David Miller wrote:
> 
> The correct fix it to use "__u8", "__u64", etc.

So the rest of rds.h uses uint8_t, uint32_t etc 
Perhaps (I'm not sure of the origins) this was because
of the shared OpenIB.org BSD license etc using __u8 in
one place and uint8_t in another would seem inconsistent,
at the very least.

--Sowmini