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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] linux/types.h: always export 64bit aligned defines
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On Friday 02 January 2009 16:59:35 Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> writes:
> > On Friday 02 January 2009 09:24:39 Andreas Schwab wrote:
> >> Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> writes:
> >> > These these defines dont actually conflict with normal userspace / C
> >> > library types, there's no reason to hide them behind the
> >> > __KERNEL_STRICT_NAMES define.
> >>
> >> aligned_u64 would pollute the name space, wouldn't it?
> >
> > if by "pollute the name space" you mean "it'll be defined where it
> > normally wasnt before", then yes.
>
> I mean that it may conflict with normal userspace which is the whole
> point of being hidden.

no, there is nothing in userspace that i know of that defines this type. i
mentioned this in the changelog already.
-mike
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