linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kbuild: auto-convert size types in userspace headers

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Message-Id: <200812291534.49577.vapier@gentoo.org>
Date:	Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:34:48 -0500
From:	Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: auto-convert size types in userspace headers

On Monday 29 December 2008 09:03:56 Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 06:12:33AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > Rather than constantly fixing up size type breakage in userspace headers,
> > auto convert the types u_intXX_t, uintXX_t, intXX_t, uXX, and sXX to the
> > appropriate __uXX or __sXX type.
>
> Is this the right thing to do?
> uintXX_t belongs to a namespace that the kernel should not use.

some headers are shared between projects and so use the uintXX_t form, so i'm 
not sure outright banning it is a nice answer for them
-mike

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