From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, akpm@digeo.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] struct loop_info64
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 09:55:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030418165506.GA6834@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0304180922370.2950-100000@home.transmeta.com>
On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 09:26:08AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> We should literally have the rule that any user-visible data structures
> cannot use _any_ types other than u8/u16/u32/u64 (and _maybe_ the signed
> ones, if there is any real reason to).
I thought we did have such a rule. Well, it's unwritten I guess...
I'll go knock up a Documentation/user_to_kernel_datatypes.txt file to
set this in stone.
Oh, and shouldn't we be using the "__*" style types for crossing the
user/kernel boundry (__u8, __u16, __u32, etc.)? I thought that is what
those versions were for.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-18 16:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-18 13:04 [PATCH] struct loop_info64 Andries.Brouwer
2003-04-18 16:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-04-18 16:55 ` Greg KH [this message]
2003-04-18 17:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-04-18 18:06 ` Greg KH
2003-04-18 19:12 ` Kai Germaschewski
2003-04-19 4:54 ` Rusty Russell
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2003-04-18 17:19 Andries.Brouwer
2003-04-18 17:50 ` Linus Torvalds
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2003-04-23 0:43 ` Peter Chubb
2003-04-23 8:20 Andries.Brouwer
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