Re: [PATCH] kbuild: auto-convert size types in userspace headers

Mike Frysinger
2008-12-29T20:37:16Z

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On Monday 29 December 2008 09:03:56 Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 06:12:33AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > Rather than constantly fixing up size type breakage in userspace headers,
> > auto convert the types u_intXX_t, uintXX_t, intXX_t, uXX, and sXX to the
> > appropriate __uXX or __sXX type.
>
> Is this the right thing to do?
> uintXX_t belongs to a namespace that the kernel should not use.

some headers are shared between projects and so use the uintXX_t form, so i'm
not sure outright banning it is a nice answer for them
-mike

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