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Message-ID: <20081227191223.GA10592@uranus.ravnborg.org> Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 20:12:23 +0100 From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org> To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>, tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86 byteorder.h: use __asm__/__inline__ for userspace On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 10:58:11AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > > > I wnet with the scripted conversion for now. > > If that does not fly we can come back to this proposal. > > > > What I like most with the auto conversion is that we avoid > > adding yet another special rule about how to do stuff in exported headers. > > > > Indeed, and being keyword conversion, it's independent of context, at > least as long as one doesn't have too many run-ins with weird uses of > the # and ## preprocessor operators, which are a *lot* easier to rule > out globally. Speaking of what we want to use in exported headers. What is the recommendation with respect to uint32_t and friends? To my best knowledge they are banned in exported headers as they are not part of the kernel namespace and I see few users too. But is this something we should check for? Sam -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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