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From: H. Peter Anvin
Subject: Re: [patch 5/7] make netfilter use strict integer types
Date: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 5:14 pm

Jan Engelhardt wrote:

We *CAN'T* replace __uXX with uintX_t.  Period, full stop, end of story. 
  It isn't possible to do universally, and doing it non-universally is 
just silly.  Nor is it likely that this adds anything to the compile 
time, since most realistic programs will have a dependency on 
<linux/types.h> through some indirect path.

Now, I have to say I'd personally would prefer if make headers_install 
did this transformation mechanically for the common integer types, 
instead of requiring it to have the source code formatted in a specific 
fashion.

	-hpa
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[patch 0/7] Use strict kernel types to fix the world, arnd, (Wed Feb 25, 4:51 pm)
[patch 1/7] make exported headers use strict posix types, arnd, (Wed Feb 25, 4:51 pm)
[patch 3/7] make MTD headers use strict integer types, arnd, (Wed Feb 25, 4:51 pm)
[patch 4/7] make drm headers use strict integer types, arnd, (Wed Feb 25, 4:51 pm)
[patch 5/7] make netfilter use strict integer types, arnd, (Wed Feb 25, 4:51 pm)
[patch 6/7] coda_psdev: dont export internals to user space, arnd, (Wed Feb 25, 4:51 pm)
[patch 7/7] remove __KERNEL_STRICT_NAMES, arnd, (Wed Feb 25, 4:51 pm)
Re: [patch 0/7] Use strict kernel types to fix the world, H. Peter Anvin, (Wed Feb 25, 5:02 pm)
Re: [patch 5/7] make netfilter use strict integer types, Jan Engelhardt, (Wed Feb 25, 5:10 pm)
Re: [patch 5/7] make netfilter use strict integer types, H. Peter Anvin, (Wed Feb 25, 5:14 pm)
Re: [patch 0/7] Use strict kernel types to fix the world, Arnd Bergmann, (Wed Feb 25, 5:24 pm)
Re: [patch 5/7] make netfilter use strict integer types, H. Peter Anvin, (Wed Feb 25, 5:24 pm)
Re: [patch 0/7] Use strict kernel types to fix the world, H. Peter Anvin, (Wed Feb 25, 5:30 pm)
Re: [patch 3/7] make MTD headers use strict integer types, Thiago Galesi, (Wed Feb 25, 5:32 pm)
Re: [patch 3/7] make MTD headers use strict integer types, Arnd Bergmann, (Wed Feb 25, 5:34 pm)
Re: [patch 5/7] make netfilter use strict integer types, Jan Engelhardt, (Wed Feb 25, 5:39 pm)
Re: [patch 0/7] Use strict kernel types to fix the world, Arnd Bergmann, (Wed Feb 25, 5:52 pm)
Re: [patch 5/7] make netfilter use strict integer types, David Miller, (Wed Feb 25, 5:55 pm)
Re: [patch 0/7] Use strict kernel types to fix the world, Ingo Molnar, (Wed Feb 25, 5:56 pm)
Re: [patch 5/7] make netfilter use strict integer types, H. Peter Anvin, (Wed Feb 25, 5:58 pm)
Re: [patch 5/7] make netfilter use strict integer types, David Miller, (Wed Feb 25, 5:59 pm)
Re: [patch 5/7] make netfilter use strict integer types, H. Peter Anvin, (Wed Feb 25, 6:02 pm)