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RE: [PATCH 3/4] netfilter: ipv4: use preferred kernel types

From David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject RE: [PATCH 3/4] netfilter: ipv4: use preferred kernel types
Date 2016-02-01 17:50 +0100
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From: Lucas Tanure
> Sent: 30 January 2016 13:18
> As suggested by checkpatch.pl:
> CHECK: Prefer kernel type 'uX' over 'uintX_t'

One might ask why?
The kernel types are older, but the uintX_t ones are now part
of the C standard.

Writing header files (eg for ioctl buffers) that have to be
parsed by both userspace and kernel is a PITA unless the uintX_t
forms are used - at which point you have inconsistent names
in the same file.

At some point someone might decide that the uintX_t types are
preferred (as NetBSD did a few years ago) - so these changes
would get reverted.

	David

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[PATCH 3/4] netfilter: ipv4: use preferred kernel types Lucas Tanure <tanure@linux.com> - 2016-01-30 14:20 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 3/4] netfilter: ipv4: use preferred kernel types Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> - 2016-01-30 14:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 3/4] netfilter: ipv4: use preferred kernel types Lucas Tanure <tanure@linux.com> - 2016-01-30 15:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 3/4] netfilter: ipv4: use preferred kernel types Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-01-30 18:30 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 3/4] netfilter: ipv4: use preferred kernel types Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> - 2016-01-30 19:00 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 3/4] netfilter: ipv4: use preferred kernel types Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-01-30 19:30 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 3/4] netfilter: ipv4: use preferred kernel types Lucas Tanure <tanure@linux.com> - 2016-01-30 19:50 +0100
  RE: [PATCH 3/4] netfilter: ipv4: use preferred kernel types David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM> - 2016-02-01 17:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 3/4] netfilter: ipv4: use preferred kernel types David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2016-02-01 20:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 3/4] netfilter: ipv4: use preferred kernel types Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com> - 2016-02-01 21:10 +0100

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