linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v05 08/72] rds.h: use __u8, __u16, __s16, __u32 and _

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Date:   Tue, 23 Aug 2016 23:46:27 +0300
From:   Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@....fi>
To:     Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v05 08/72] rds.h: use __u8, __u16, __s16, __u32 and __s64
 from linux/types.h

On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 02:52:58PM -0400, Sowmini Varadhan wrote:
> On (08/22/16 20:32), Mikko Rapeli wrote:
> > 
> > Fixes userspace compilation errors like:
> > 
> > linux/rds.h:96:2: error: unknown type name ‘uint8_t’
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@....fi>
> 
> Acked-by: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com>
> 
> I think we discussed this some time before, and I certainly
> dont have any religious opinions about it, but I would like
> to point out that this means that the exported rds.h will
> expose __<type> to user space applications. 

Thanks. I'm also not religious but patches to include <stdint.h> in userspace
side were previously rejected with arguments like
https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/6/1/160

Thus I've been sending linux/types.h conversion patches.

-Mikko