Re: [RFC][PATCH] A generic boolean (version 6)

[ricknu-0]

Citerar Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@xxxxxxxxxx>:

> On Wednesday 26 July 2006 22:28, ricknu-0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Have not found any (real) reason letting the cpp know about false/true. As
> I
> > said in the last version, the only reason seem to be for the userspace.
> Well, as
> > there is no program of my knowlage that needs it, they were removed.
> > 
> If we don't expect this to show up in the ABI (which I hope is true), then
> the definition should probably be inside of #ifdef __KERNEL__. Right
> now, it's inside of (!__KERNEL_STRICT_NAMES), which is not exactly the
> same.

Thanks

What do you think about this?:

diff --git a/include/linux/types.h b/include/linux/types.h
index 3f23566..406d4ae 100644
--- a/include/linux/types.h
+++ b/include/linux/types.h
@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ typedef __kernel_clockid_t	clockid_t;
 typedef __kernel_mqd_t		mqd_t;
 
 #ifdef __KERNEL__
+typedef _Bool			bool;
+
 typedef __kernel_uid32_t	uid_t;
 typedef __kernel_gid32_t	gid_t;
 typedef __kernel_uid16_t        uid16_t;


> 	Arnd <><

/Richard

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