Re: [PATCH] ethtool.h should use userspace-accessible types

Jeff Garzik
2004-03-12T16:54:43Z

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Eric Brower <ebrower@usa.net> writes:
>
>
>>Attached is a patch to 2.4's ethtool.h to use appropriate, userspace-accessible
>>data types (__u8 and friends, rather than u8 and friends).
>
>
> Why there is no #ifdef __KERNEL__ in this header to make it userspace
> safe.

Because it's not needed.

Jeff