netdev - RE: [PATCH] bluetooth.h: __ variants of u8 and friends are not neccessary inside kernel

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Date:   Thu, 6 Oct 2016 09:41:21 +0000
From:   David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:     'Joe Perches' <joe@...ches.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
CC:     Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>,
        "trivial@...nel.org" <trivial@...nel.org>,
        "Gustavo F. Padovan" <gustavo@...ovan.org>,
        "Johan Hedberg" <johan.hedberg@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "linux-bluetooth@...r.kernel.org" <linux-bluetooth@...r.kernel.org>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] bluetooth.h: __ variants of u8 and friends are not
 neccessary inside kernel

From: Of Joe Perches
...
> No worries, and bool is the same size as u8.

That is not guaranteed at all.
One of the ARM ABI defined bool to be the size of int.

	David