Re: [PATCH] staging: lustre: Replaces 'uint32_t' with '__u32' and 'uint64_t' with '__u64'.

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On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 08:58:39PM +0300, Roman Storozhenko wrote:
> There are two reasons for that:
> 1) As Linus Torvalds said we should use kernel types:
> http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail//linux/kernel/1506.0/00160.html
> 
> 2) There are only few places in the lustre codebase that use such types.
> In the most cases it uses '__u32' and '__u64'.

The __ types are only needed for when you cross the user/kernel boundry.
Otherwise just use the "normal" types of u32 and u64.

Do the changes you made here all cross that boundry?  If not, please fix
this up.

thanks,

greg k-h
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