From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2017 12:46:18 +0100 Subject: [lustre-devel] [PATCH] staging: lustre: Replaces 'uint32_t' with '__u32' and 'uint64_t' with '__u64'. In-Reply-To: <20171029175839.GA19864@home> References: <20171029175839.GA19864@home> Message-ID: <20171103114618.GA11059@kroah.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lustre-devel@lists.lustre.org On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 08:58:39PM +0300, Roman Storozhenko wrote: > There are two reasons for that: > 1) As Linus Torvalds said we should use kernel types: > http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail//linux/kernel/1506.0/00160.html > > 2) There are only few places in the lustre codebase that use such types. > In the most cases it uses '__u32' and '__u64'. The __ types are only needed for when you cross the user/kernel boundry. Otherwise just use the "normal" types of u32 and u64. Do the changes you made here all cross that boundry? If not, please fix this up. thanks, greg k-h