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From: Dominik.Strasser@t-online.de (Dominik Strasser)
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi.h uses "u8" which isn't defined.
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 15:08:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F3F7E67.2040506@t-online.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030817134633.A7881@infradead.org>

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 02:42:20PM +0200, Dominik Strasser wrote:
> 
>>scsi.h uses "u8" which doesn't seem to be defined.
>>Better use u_char.
> 
> 
> It's defined in <linux/types.h> as is u_char.  But we generally prefer
> explicitly sized types in Linux - and u_char is a BSDism, the right
> not explicitly sized type would be unsigned char.

I am sorry, in 2.6.0-test3 (which I should have mentioned), there is no 
u8 in liux/types.h. Just a __u8.
Nevertheless there is a mixture in scsi.h, some lines above, u_char is 
used. This is why I chose to use it.

Dominik



  reply	other threads:[~2003-08-17 13:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-17 12:42 [PATCH] scsi.h uses "u8" which isn't defined Dominik Strasser
2003-08-17 12:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-08-17 13:08   ` Dominik Strasser [this message]
2003-08-17 13:07     ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-08-17 13:50       ` Dominik Strasser
2003-08-17 13:07     ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2003-08-17 12:55 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda

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