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?
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dwmw2
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