netdev - RE: [PATCH 3/4] netfilter: ipv4: use preferred kernel types

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Date:	Mon, 1 Feb 2016 16:37:41 +0000
From:	David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:	'Lucas Tanure' <tanure@...ux.com>,
	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
CC:	Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@...ckhole.kfki.hu>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
	"coreteam@...filter.org" <coreteam@...filter.org>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 3/4] netfilter: ipv4: use preferred kernel types

From: Lucas Tanure
> Sent: 30 January 2016 13:18
> As suggested by checkpatch.pl:
> CHECK: Prefer kernel type 'uX' over 'uintX_t'

One might ask why?
The kernel types are older, but the uintX_t ones are now part
of the C standard.

Writing header files (eg for ioctl buffers) that have to be
parsed by both userspace and kernel is a PITA unless the uintX_t
forms are used - at which point you have inconsistent names
in the same file.

At some point someone might decide that the uintX_t types are
preferred (as NetBSD did a few years ago) - so these changes
would get reverted.

	David