Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 04:26:39AM +0300, Guillem Jover wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 06:14:58 +0300, Guillem Jover wrote:
>>
>>>This patch by Andreas Jochens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, fixes a build failure
>>>on amd64 due to types clashing by including 'dfb_types.h' instead
>>>of 'asm/types.h' (needs to be applied after the fbdev one, or just
>>>ignore the error from the missing file).
>>
>>There has been another build failure on Debian GNU/Linux amd64, due
>>to the redefinition of kernel types from userland. Here's a better
>>approach, rename all kernel types from userland to proper userland
>>ones. I've chosen the inet types as they are the ones currently used
>>in "dfb_types.h", but those could be changed to use <stdint.h> as well.
> 
> 
> I vote for stdint.h/inttypes.h because that eliminates one unecessary 
> underscore in the unsigned types. Unfortunately that still leaves 
> unecessary crap in the type names ('int' and '_t'). Would s8,u8,... 
> create more problems? The kernel at least shouldn't expose those types 
> to user-space.

I think that would even look much better in the online documentation.

I vote for that, too :)

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   Denis Oliver Kropp

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