Re: [PATCH] ethtool.h should use userspace-accessible types

From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Fri Mar 12 2004 - 11:56:18 EST


Eric W. Biederman wrote:
Eric Brower <ebrower@xxxxxxx> writes:


Attached is a patch to 2.4's ethtool.h to use appropriate, userspace-accessible
data types (__u8 and friends, rather than u8 and friends).


Why there is no #ifdef __KERNEL__ in this header to make it userspace
safe.


Because it's not needed.

Jeff



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