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From: Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel header separation
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 15:16:04 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030905211604.GB16993@codepoet.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030905144154.GL18654@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>

On Fri Sep 05, 2003 at 03:41:54PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 07:49:09PM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:
> > Header files intended for use by users should probably drop
> > linux/types.h just include <stdint.h>,,,  Then convert the 
> > types over to ISO C99 types.
> 
> stdint.h is a userspace header.  I suppose we could clone it for the
> kernel, but I don't see any need to.
> 
> > s/__u8/uint8_t/g
> > s/__u16/uint16_t/g
> > s/__u32/uint32_t/g
> > s/__u64/uint64_t/g
> 
> i think all these _t types are ugly ;-(

They may be ugly, but they are standardized and have very 
precise meanings defined by ISO C99, which is a very good
thing for code interoperability...

 -Erik

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-09-05 21:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-02 19:16 kernel header separation Matthew Wilcox
2003-09-03  1:49 ` Erik Andersen
2003-09-05 14:36   ` David Woodhouse
2003-09-05 21:10     ` Erik Andersen
2003-09-05 14:41   ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-09-05 21:16     ` Erik Andersen [this message]
2003-09-05 23:22       ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-09-08 13:38         ` David Woodhouse
2003-09-08 14:12           ` Alan Cox
2003-09-08 14:25             ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-08 14:31               ` Alan Cox
2003-09-08 14:32               ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-08 14:42                 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-09-08 15:22                   ` Andreas Schwab
2003-09-08 14:37               ` Andreas Schwab
2003-09-08 20:23       ` David Garfield
2003-09-08 20:34         ` Andries Brouwer
2003-09-08 21:05           ` David Garfield
2003-09-08 20:43         ` Erik Andersen

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