Re: [PATCH] CodingStyle: add typedefs chapter

[David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>]

On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 12:07 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> And that wasn't what I objected to. 
> 
> What I objected to was that other part, which said that "uint32_t" was 
> somehow more standard.

It didn't say "more standard". It referred to "the standard C99 types".

It's heading off the question "why object to ifdefs but permit _these_
gratuitous ones?" which would otherwise be asked.

It's a document which is _describing_ the Linux coding style. To refer
to u32 et al as 'standard' would be self-referential. Describe them as
'the Linux standard types' in other documents by all means, but it
doesn't make much sense to do so in Documentation/CodingStyle.

-- 
dwmw2

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