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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make exported headers use strict posix types
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Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> 
> Actually, this change does belong in here: This is the only user of u_short
> in exported headers, and nothing uses u_char, u_int or u_long, so it gets
> rid of a whole class of types. The only questionable types left after this
> are the standard stdint.h types, many of which are probably legitimate:
> 

Not legitimate in *exported* headers.

	-hpa