On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 09:26:08AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> We should literally have the rule that any user-visible data structures
> cannot use _any_ types other than u8/u16/u32/u64 (and _maybe_ the signed
> ones, if there is any real reason to).
I thought we did have such a rule. Well, it's unwritten I guess...
I'll go knock up a Documentation/user_to_kernel_datatypes.txt file to
set this in stone.
Oh, and shouldn't we be using the "__*" style types for crossing the
user/kernel boundry (__u8, __u16, __u32, etc.)? I thought that is what
those versions were for.
thanks,
greg k-h
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