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From: Arnd Bergmann
Subject: Re: [patch 0/7] Use strict kernel types to fix the world
Date: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 5:52 pm

On Thursday 26 February 2009, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

The only file I found that is obviously shared across operating systems
is linux/coda.h, and I completely left that one alone on the basis
that the hacks in there should still work with the new linux/types.h.

Doing an automated conversion on coda.h would guarantee trouble, which
I see as an argument for doing the manual approach in general.

The changes outside of mtd, netfilter, drm and pfkeyv2.h are actually
pretty minimal. For reference, all other patches touching those files
since 2.6.28 have a combined diffstat of 

 include/drm/drm.h                      |   26 +++-
 include/drm/drm_mode.h                 |  271 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/drm/i915_drm.h                 |   43 +++++-
 include/linux/agpgart.h                |    1 -
 include/linux/cyclades.h               |    2 -
 include/linux/dvb/audio.h              |    5 -
 include/linux/dvb/video.h              |    7 +-
 include/linux/if_pppol2tp.h            |    2 +-
 include/linux/matroxfb.h               |    2 +-
 include/linux/mroute6.h                |   26 +++-
 include/linux/netfilter/x_tables.h     |    2 +-
 include/linux/netfilter/xt_conntrack.h |    1 +
 include/linux/pkt_sched.h              |   18 ++
 include/linux/ppp_defs.h               |    2 +
 include/linux/time.h                   |    1 +
 include/linux/types.h                  |   24 ++--
 include/linux/xfrm.h                   |   14 ++
 include/mtd/inftl-user.h               |    2 +
 include/mtd/ubi-user.h                 |  134 +++++++++++++---
 include/sound/asound.h                 |    1 +
 20 files changed, 530 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-)

As long as the netfilter, mtd and drm maintainers agree, I don't see
anything holding up the convert-everything-now approach.

	Arnd <><
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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)