netdev - Re: clarify code intent

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Message-Id: <20080918.165911.07741111.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:59:11 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	mathieu.lacage@...hia.inria.fr
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: clarify code intent

From: Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@...hia.inria.fr>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:53:40 -0700

> 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.

No, that would break older userspace.
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