Re: kernel header separation

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Fri Sep 05 2003 - 18:24:17 EST


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.

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