Re: [PATCH] scsi: consistent use of __u8 in scsi/scsi.h

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Wed Jul 29 2009 - 12:28:54 EST


On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 08:56:03AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 14:11 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > scsi/scsi.h is exported to userspace, so it should
> > use __u8 instead of u8 as other userspace-visible headers do.
>
> Actually, can we just put a hold on this until we decide what we're
> doing with exporting include/scsi.
>
> Arguments so far are
>
> 1. Don't export and let glibc supply the headers (as it does now)
> 2. Move headers to be exported to include/linux
> 3. Take over include/scsi export from glibc: this will necessitate
> comparing our current headers and those of glibc and moving
> stuff around.

2 + 3...
Let include/scsi be kernel internal stuff.
And have the exported headers in include/linux.

This is how net/ handle their headers.

I did a quick diff of the glibc provided scsi.h and kernel scsi.h.
>From a quick look it seems that we have more in the kernel version
than the glibc version - and no obvious conflicts.

But agree with Boaz that we should do this in one go.

Sam
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