From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Eric Brower <ebrower@usa.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ethtool.h should use userspace-accessible types
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 11:54:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4051EB42.8060903@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m17jxqf2xf.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Eric Brower <ebrower@usa.net> writes:
>
>
>>Attached is a patch to 2.4's ethtool.h to use appropriate, userspace-accessible
>>data types (__u8 and friends, rather than u8 and friends).
>
>
> Why there is no #ifdef __KERNEL__ in this header to make it userspace
> safe.
Because it's not needed.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-12 16:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-12 1:54 [PATCH] ethtool.h should use userspace-accessible types Eric Brower
2004-03-12 2:35 ` Tim Hockin
2004-03-12 4:57 ` Greg KH
2004-03-12 9:19 ` Tim Hockin
2004-03-12 16:25 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-03-12 16:54 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2004-03-12 17:06 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-03-12 21:48 ` Jonathan Lundell
2004-03-14 3:25 ` Matt Mackall
2004-03-15 21:24 ` Jonathan Lundell
2004-03-12 16:54 ` Jeff Garzik
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