Re: [E1000-devel] [PATCH] drivers/net: convert & to &&

[walter harms <WHarms@bfs.de>]

Joe Perches wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 10:07 -0800, Kok, Auke wrote:
>> (which, BTW also could use the uint32_t -> u32 (etc) changes... while you're at it)
> 
> I think this does what you want:
> 
> for size in "8" "16" "32" "64" ; do \
> sed -r -i -e 's/\bu_{0,1}int'$size'_t\b/u'$size'/g' \
> $(grep -rPlw --include=*.[ch] 'u_{0,1}int'$size'_t' drivers/net/e1000 drivers/net/ixgb); done
> 
> But why?  boolean_t is used by 3 subsystems with local typedefs.
> These others are much more frequently used by kernel source.
> 
> $ grep -rPlw --include=*.[ch] "u{0,1}_{0,1}int(8|16|32|64)_t" * | wc -l
> 876
> 
> include/linux/types.h has typedefs for these but not boolean_t
> 
> include/linux/types.h:typedef           __u8            u_int8_t;
> include/linux/types.h:typedef           __s8            int8_t;
> include/linux/types.h:typedef           __u16           u_int16_t;
> include/linux/types.h:typedef           __s16           int16_t;
> include/linux/types.h:typedef           __u32           u_int32_t;
> include/linux/types.h:typedef           __s32           int32_t;
> include/linux/types.h:typedef           __u8            uint8_t;
> include/linux/types.h:typedef           __u16           uint16_t;
> include/linux/types.h:typedef           __u32           uint32_t;
> include/linux/types.h:typedef           __u64           uint64_t;
> include/linux/types.h:typedef           __u64           u_int64_t;
> include/linux/types.h:typedef           __s64           int64_t;
> 

Why not the other way around ?
inttypes.h is C99 and defines int16_t (or uint16_t). i do not see any reason
not to use them or any other type (like __u8) that does actually the same.

In that case we do not need different type names for userspace/kernelspace, or is there an other name
for int ? in that case we can remove the whole heap of typedef's.

re,
 wh