From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
To: Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel header separation
Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 00:22:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030905232212.GP18654@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030905211604.GB16993@codepoet.org>
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 03:16:04PM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:
> On Fri Sep 05, 2003 at 03:41:54PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > i think all these _t types are ugly ;-(
>
> They may be ugly, but they are standardized and have very
> precise meanings defined by ISO C99, which is a very good
> thing for code interoperability...
__u8 has a very precise meaning defined by Linux. If you're including
a Linux header. that's what you need to worry about.
--
"It's not Hollywood. War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or
victory, it is about death. I've seen thousands and thousands of dead bodies.
Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this subject?" -- Robert Fisk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-05 23:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-02 19:16 Matthew Wilcox
2003-09-03 1:49 ` Erik Andersen
2003-09-05 14:36 ` David Woodhouse
2003-09-05 21:10 ` Erik Andersen
2003-09-05 14:41 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-09-05 21:16 ` Erik Andersen
2003-09-05 23:22 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2003-09-08 13:38 ` David Woodhouse
2003-09-08 14:12 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-08 14:25 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-08 14:31 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-08 14:32 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-08 14:42 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-09-08 15:22 ` Andreas Schwab
2003-09-08 14:37 ` Andreas Schwab
2003-09-08 20:23 ` David Garfield
2003-09-08 20:34 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-09-08 21:05 ` David Garfield
2003-09-08 20:43 ` Erik Andersen
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