Re: kernel header separation
From: David Woodhouse
Date: Mon Sep 08 2003 - 08:44:00 EST
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 00:22 +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 03:16:04PM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:
> > On Fri Sep 05, 2003 at 03:41:54PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > > i think all these _t types are ugly ;-(
> >
> > They may be ugly, but they are standardized and have very
> > precise meanings defined by ISO C99, which is a very good
> > thing for code interoperability...
>
> __u8 has a very precise meaning defined by Linux. If you're including
> a Linux header. that's what you need to worry about.
It's a kernel-private type. If we're aiming for a clean set of headers,
then ideally we should avoid gratuitously defining our own types when
standards already exist.
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dwmw2
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