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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] linux/types.h: always export 64bit aligned defines
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:59:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jer63lfjy0.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200901021547.32666.vapier@gentoo.org> (Mike Frysinger's message of "Fri, 2 Jan 2009 15:47:30 -0500")

Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> writes:

> On Friday 02 January 2009 09:24:39 Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> writes:
>> > These these defines dont actually conflict with normal userspace / C
>> > library types, there's no reason to hide them behind the
>> > __KERNEL_STRICT_NAMES define.
>>
>> aligned_u64 would pollute the name space, wouldn't it?
>
> if by "pollute the name space" you mean "it'll be defined where it normally 
> wasnt before", then yes.

I mean that it may conflict with normal userspace which is the whole
point of being hidden.

Andreas.

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-02 21:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-02  8:39 [PATCH v2] linux/types.h: always export 64bit aligned defines Mike Frysinger
2009-01-02 14:24 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-01-02 20:47   ` Mike Frysinger
2009-01-02 21:59     ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2009-01-02 22:06       ` Mike Frysinger
2009-01-02 22:53         ` Arnd Bergmann

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