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On Wed, 24 May 2006, David Mosberger-Tang wrote:
> linux/videodev2.h uses types such as __u8 but it fails to include
> <linux/types.h>.  Within the kernel, that's not a problem because
> <linux/time.h> already includes <linux/types.h>.  However, there are
> user apps that try to include videodev2.h (e.g., ekiga) and at least

userspace apps should (must?) not include kernel headers, AFAIK.
there is lots of discussion regarding this in the lkml archives...

Christian.
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