Re: kernel header separation

[Alan Cox]

On Llu, 2003-09-08 at 14:38, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > __u8 has a very precise meaning defined by Linux.  If you're including
> > a Linux header. that's what you need to worry about.
> 
> It's a kernel-private type. If we're aiming for a clean set of headers,
> then ideally we should avoid gratuitously defining our own types when
> standards already exist.

__u8 is intended to be used by non kernel stuff for headers. Thats why
"__u8" not "u8" - so it doesnt pollute the sacred posix name space and
have us lynched by glibc people

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