Re: [RFC] Splitting out kernel<=>userspace ABI headers

[Sam Ravnborg]

> The kernel predates C99, sort of, and it would be a massive but valuable 
>  task to figure out where a type is really, for instance, 32 bits 
> rather than "size of default int" in length, etc, and use POSIX types 
> where they are correct. Fewer things to maintain, and would make it 
> clear when something is 32 bits by default and when it really must be 32 
> bits.
This has been discussed several times on lkml.
Ask google...
In short - the kernel provide its own namespace, and here __u32 etc is
used. And starting to change that would be a noisy effort with no or
limited gain neither for the kernel nor userspace.

	Sam
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