On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 11:08 AM, Christian König <christian.koenig@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Yeah, completely agree with Linus on the visibility problem and that's > exactly the reason why we don't include <stdint.h> in the kernel header and > expect userspace to define the ISO types somewhere. > > But using the types from "include/linux/types.h" and especially including it > into the uapi headers doesn't make the situation better, but rather worse. > > With this step we not only make the headers depend on another header that > isn't part of the uapi, but also pollute the user space namespace with __sXX > and __uXX types which aren't defined anywhere else. These __uXX and __sXX types are defined in include/uapi/asm-generic/ll64.h and pulled in by include/uapi/linux/types.h. Including linux/types.h is therefore valid. Frans -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
