linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 23/79] rds.h: use __u8, __u16, __s16, __u32 and _

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Message-ID: <20151015110614.GL948@oracle.com>
Date:	Thu, 15 Oct 2015 07:06:14 -0400
From:	Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com>
To:	Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@....fi>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, linux-api@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 23/79] rds.h: use __u8, __u16, __s16, __u32 and __s64
 from linux/types.h

On (10/15/15 07:56), Mikko Rapeli wrote:
> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 07:56:01 +0200
> From: Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@....fi>
> To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
> Cc: mikko.rapeli@....fi, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Sowmini
>  Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com>, linux-api@...r.kernel.org
> Subject: [PATCH v4 23/79] rds.h: use __u8, __u16, __s16, __u32 and __s64
>  from linux/types.h
> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.6.1
> 
> Fixes userspace compilation errors like:
> 
> linux/rds.h:96:2: error: unknown type name ‘uint8_t’

Can't you just include <stdint.h> in linux/rds.h? (similar to the
fix for linux/rds)? It would reduce the deltas significantly, 
and portable applications are likely to expect uint8_t etc anyway.

--Sowmini
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