Re: 2.6.16-rc4-mm2: drivers/isdn/hysdn/hysdn_net.c module_param()compile error

[Rusty Russell]

On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 23:22 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Bad Rusty should have chosen less generic-sounding identifiers.

I actually disagree with that, for three reasons.  Firstly, my namespace
didn't leak: I only appended these names to clear prefixes.  Secondly,
uint is already typedefed in types.h.  Thirdly, the short names are
clear and intuitive.

> Bad ISDN shouldn't have gone off and defined its own types, either.

That was poor, yes, but typedefs would have been less polluting than
#defines.

Hope that clarifies!
Rusty.
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