From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756897AbZBZBFl (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:05:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753161AbZBZBFb (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:05:31 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:34411 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752720AbZBZBFa (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:05:30 -0500 Message-ID: <49A5E92E.8080505@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:58:22 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090105) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Miller CC: jengelh@medozas.de, arnd@arndb.de, sam@ravnborg.org, kyle@infradead.org, mingo@elte.hu, jaswinderrajput@gmail.com, mingo@redhat.com, dwmw2@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter.org Subject: Re: [patch 5/7] make netfilter use strict integer types References: <20090225235138.062045835@arndb.de> <20090225235515.682333715@arndb.de> <20090225.165552.32040707.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: <20090225.165552.32040707.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org David Miller wrote: > > Disagreed, I think we should have done what Arnd is doing > a long time ago. > > Ending up with linux/types.h in userspace for these kinds of > interfaces is already a fore-gone conclusion, it happens > already whether you like it or not. > > And existing apps will work just fine, since they are already > getting stdint.h > > As for compile time, since you're already getting linux/types.h > in your apps it's a non-argument. But even if it was, what > are you compiling netfilter utilities on? A VAX? I take it that you're OK that we merge Arnd's patchset? -hpa