From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: jengelh@medozas.de, arnd@arndb.de, sam@ravnborg.org,
kyle@infradead.org, mingo@elte.hu, jaswinderrajput@gmail.com,
mingo@redhat.com, dwmw2@infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter.org
Subject: Re: [patch 5/7] make netfilter use strict integer types
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:58:22 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49A5E92E.8080505@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090225.165552.32040707.davem@davemloft.net>
David Miller wrote:
>
> Disagreed, I think we should have done what Arnd is doing
> a long time ago.
>
> Ending up with linux/types.h in userspace for these kinds of
> interfaces is already a fore-gone conclusion, it happens
> already whether you like it or not.
>
> And existing apps will work just fine, since they are already
> getting stdint.h
>
> As for compile time, since you're already getting linux/types.h
> in your apps it's a non-argument. But even if it was, what
> are you compiling netfilter utilities on? A VAX?
I take it that you're OK that we merge Arnd's patchset?
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-26 1:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-25 23:51 [patch 0/7] Use strict kernel types to fix the world arnd
2009-02-25 23:51 ` [patch 1/7] make exported headers use strict posix types arnd
2009-02-25 23:51 ` [patch 2/7] make most exported headers use strict integer types arnd
2009-02-25 23:51 ` [patch 3/7] make MTD " arnd
2009-02-26 0:32 ` Thiago Galesi
2009-02-26 0:34 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-02-25 23:51 ` [patch 4/7] make drm " arnd
2009-02-25 23:51 ` [patch 5/7] make netfilter " arnd
2009-02-26 0:10 ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-02-26 0:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-02-26 0:39 ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-02-26 1:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-02-26 0:24 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-02-26 0:55 ` David Miller
2009-02-26 0:58 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2009-02-26 0:59 ` David Miller
2009-02-25 23:51 ` [patch 6/7] coda_psdev: dont export internals to user space arnd
2009-02-25 23:51 ` [patch 7/7] remove __KERNEL_STRICT_NAMES arnd
2009-02-26 0:02 ` [patch 0/7] Use strict kernel types to fix the world H. Peter Anvin
2009-02-26 0:24 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-02-26 0:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-02-26 0:52 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-02-26 0:56 ` Ingo Molnar
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