From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [patch 5/7] make netfilter use strict integer types Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:58:22 -0800 Message-ID: <49A5E92E.8080505@zytor.com> References: <20090225235138.062045835@arndb.de> <20090225235515.682333715@arndb.de> <20090225.165552.32040707.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:34411 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752720AbZBZBFa (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:05:30 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20090225.165552.32040707.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: David Miller 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 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