netdev - Re: clarify code intent

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Message-Id: <1221782020.23007.37.camel@ns-test>
Date:	Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:53:40 -0700
From:	Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@...hia.inria.fr>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: clarify code intent

On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 16:36 -0700, David Miller wrote:

> This is just syntactic masterbation, sa_family_t is typedef'd
> "unsigned short".

Would you take a patch to remove sa_family_t from the kernel code and
headers ? Otherwise, I suspect that you can understand that it is a bit
hard for others to figure out where it is appropriate to use it and
where it is not.

regards,
Mathieu

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