From: randyf@sibernet.com
To: Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@gmail.com>
Cc: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>,
Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@iki.fi>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
ML dri-devel <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Using C99 stdint vs kernel __uX types in kernel drmUAPI (was Re: [PATCH 1/2] Revert "include/uapi/drm/amdgpu_drm.h: use __u32 and __u64 from <linux/types.h>")
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 14:12:00 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.SOC.2.00.1608221348530.19914@sibernet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACvgo52Hj-V=8juG7ukYaLOJMowsaMtwMYWLt0nE7PgwektkDg@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 22 Aug 2016, Emil Velikov wrote:
> Although last time around people leaned towards the __uX types, if we
> have a consensus amongst drm (kernel) developers about using stdint
> ones everything should be fine.
> We just need a handful of acks from the different maintainers.
>
My opinion (as a non-Linux driver maintainer) is to use the stdint
variants. They are (or at least should be) supported by all OS's
and compilers without any special modifications.
That said, it really isn't that hard for me to wrap the __uX types
either.
---- Randy
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-22 21:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-22 8:48 Emil Velikov
2016-08-22 8:58 ` Christian König
2016-08-22 10:28 ` Mikko Rapeli
2016-08-22 10:38 ` Rob Clark
2016-08-22 14:38 ` Daniel Vetter
2016-08-22 15:05 ` Emil Velikov
2016-08-22 15:40 ` Daniel Vetter
2016-08-22 21:12 ` randyf [this message]
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