linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] linux/atm_tcp.h: cleanup for userspace

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Message-Id: <200804232333.10968.vapier@gentoo.org>
Date:	Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:33:10 -0400
From:	Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] linux/atm_tcp.h: cleanup for userspace

On Wednesday 23 April 2008, David Miller wrote:
> From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>
> > On Wednesday 23 April 2008, David Miller wrote:
> > > From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>
> > > > The atm_tcp.h uses types from linux/atm.h, but does not include it. 
> > > > It should also use the standard __u## types from linux/types.h rather
> > > > than the uint##_t types since the former can be found with the kernel
> > > > already.
> > >
> > > I don't think this is a sufficient patch to solve these problems.
> >
> > it is sufficient for atm_tcp.h only.  many of the network headers are
> > broken for userspace inclusion, so i've just been posting them one at a
> > time as last time i posted a large patch, no one picked it up.
>
> But you're adding an include of another file that has the problem
> you're supposedly fixing.

and i'll send out fixes for that file in time.

> If using uintN_t types is the problem, you're adding a new one for
> applications that include linux/atm_tcp.h, because now they'll
> get linux/atm.h as a side effect which does it too.

any applications that use linux/atm_tcp.h are already including linux/atm.h, 
and already including stdint.h (or whatever indirectly to get uintN_t types).  
nothing new is broken, but eventually things will be all fixed.
-mike

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