From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764013AbZBZAFf (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:05:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1763358AbZBZACk (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:02:40 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:45013 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1763304AbZBZACj (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:02:39 -0500 Message-ID: <49A5DB2F.6000700@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:58:39 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090105) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Woodhouse CC: Arnd Bergmann , Sam Ravnborg , Kyle McMartin , Ingo Molnar , Jaswinder Singh Rajput , mingo@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make exported headers use strict posix types References: <20090225032553.GD6690@bombadil.infradead.org> <200902251917.49017.arnd@arndb.de> <20090225201131.GA26110@uranus.ravnborg.org> <200902252258.30489.arnd@arndb.de> <49A5C118.3070605@zytor.com> <1235601586.4913.9.camel@macbook.infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <1235601586.4913.9.camel@macbook.infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org David Woodhouse wrote: >> Not legitimate in *exported* headers. > > Not in the ones which might be included implicitly by glibc, perhaps -- > but other non-POSIX headers are perfectly entitled to require C standard > types, surely? It doesn't make any sense, though, when there is a straighforward way to deal without. Now, for source code maintainability reasons I still believe this should be done mechanically instead of having to edit the source all over the place. -hpa