Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] media: do not use C++ style comments in uapi headers | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Tue, 04 Jun 2019 22:22:05 -0700 |
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On Wed, 2019-06-05 at 07:10 +0200, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 01:10:41PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 5, 2019 at 3:21 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote: [] > > This means we cannot reliably use uint{8,16,32,64}_t in UAPI headers. > > We should not be doing that as they are in the userspace "namespace" of > variables, not in the kernel namespace. We've been over this many times > in the past :(
Just not very successfully...
$ git grep -w -P 'u?_?int(?:8|16|32|64)_t' include/uapi | wc -l 342
$ git grep -w -P --name-only 'u?_?int(?:8|16|32|64)_t' include/uapi | wc -l 13
Documentation helps a bit, checkpatch helps as well. Maintainer knowledge and vigilance probably helps the most.
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