Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/4] LOG2: Implement a general integer log2 facility in the kernel [try #4] | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Tue, 10 Oct 2006 08:55:33 +0100 |
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On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 18:47 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > That has the potential of breaking other source files that don't expect > linux/types.h to bring in the whole stdint.h file.
I don't think we need to care about those. Userspace in _general_ shouldn't be including our header files -- this is only for low-level system stuff, and that can be expected to deal with the fact that we define and use some standard C types from last century.
> Also, it may break some other linux header files that include <linux/types.h> > and expect to get stuff like uid_t, which you don't get if a glibc header is > included first, because of __KERNEL_STRICT_NAMES.
We have that problem already, don't we?
-- dwmw2
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