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From: Daniel Phillips <dphillips@sistina.com>
To: dm-devel@sistina.com, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	Joe Thornber <thornber@sistina.com>
Cc: dm-devel@sistina.com, Linux Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [dm-devel] Re: [RFC] device-mapper ioctl interface
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 22:03:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200306092203.50024.dphillips@sistina.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030606171700.GC12231@kroah.com>

On Friday 06 June 2003 19:17, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 10:39:43AM +0100, Joe Thornber wrote:
> > Here's the header file for the the proposed new ioctl interface for
> > dm.  We've tried to change as little as possible to minimise code
> > changes in LVM2 and EVMS.
>
> Minor comment:
> 	- please do not use uint_32t types in kernel header files.  Use
> 	  the proper __u32 type which is guarenteed to be the proper
> 	  size across the user/kernel boundry.

We even have a flavor without the __'s:

   http://lxr.linux.no/source/include/asm-i386/types.h?v=2.5.56#L47

A little easier on the eyes, imho.

Regards,

Daniel


  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-06-09 19:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-05  9:39 [RFC] device-mapper ioctl interface Joe Thornber
2003-06-05 16:47 ` Kevin Corry
2003-06-05 17:00   ` [dm-devel] " Daniel Phillips
2003-06-05 17:50     ` Kevin Corry
2003-06-05 18:53       ` Daniel Phillips
2003-06-05 19:41   ` Joe Thornber
2003-06-06 16:11     ` Kevin Corry
2003-06-06 17:17 ` Greg KH
2003-06-06 19:53   ` [dm-devel] " Alasdair G Kergon
2003-06-09 20:03   ` Daniel Phillips [this message]
2003-06-09 20:39     ` Greg KH
2003-06-09 21:39       ` Daniel Phillips
2003-06-09 22:08   ` Daniel Phillips

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