On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 01:03:13PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > i want to make sure i understand the issue regarding data types. as > > i understand it, it's recommended to use types like "__u32" instead of > > just "u32", but that's really true only for stuff that will get > > exported to user space, right? > > > > in short, it's only an issue in header files that are populated via > > running "make headers_install"? is that correct? > > Perhaps this old article might help out: > http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT5340618290.html ah, good, i will check that. i was asking since i noticed that, when i ran "make headers_install", some of the header files contained the types "u32" rather than "__u32", which i thought you were supposed to avoid exporting to userspace. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://www.fsdev.dreamhosters.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ======================================================================== -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
