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

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Date:   Thu, 06 Oct 2016 04:38:49 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.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

On Thu, 2016-10-06 at 09:41 +0000, David Laight wrote:
> From: 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.

Really?  What kernel has sizeof(_Bool) != 1 ?