Re: [PATCH] scsi: ufs: fix integer type usage in uapi header

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Arnd,

> We get a warning from 'make headers_check' about a newly introduced
> usage of integer types in the scsi/scsi_bsg_ufs.h uapi header:
>
> usr/include/scsi/scsi_bsg_ufs.h:18: found __[us]{8,16,32,64} type without #include <linux/types.h>
>
> Aside from the missing linux/types.h inclusion, I also noticed that it
> uses the wrong types: 'u32' is not available at all in user space,
> and 'uint32_t' depends on the inclusion of a standard header that
> we should not include from kernel headers.
>
> Change the all to __u32 and similar types here.
>
> I also note the usage of '__be32' and '__be16' that seems unfortunate
> for a user space API. I wonder if it would be better to define the
> interface in terms of a CPU-endian structure and convert it in kernel
> space.

Applied to 4.20/scsi-queue, thank you!

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering



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