Re: [PATCH] Make scsi.h nominally userspace-clean

[Joerg Schilling]

>From axboe@xxxxxxx  Mon Aug  9 19:52:11 2004

>> scsi/scsi.h does not compile cleanly in userspace programs due to its
>> use of ``u8''.  I have confirmed this bug and prepared and tested a
>> fix that simply changes all such uses to ``__u8''.  Please consider
>> for inclusion.
>> 
>> I do not argue that including this header file in a program is
>> appropriate, but other kernel headers already take as many precautions
>> as this patch introduces.  I chose __u8 over uint8_t as more in the
>> style of the kernel generally.
>> 
>> Please keep me on cc:; I do not subscribe to the lists.

>I already sent such a patch to Linus.

thank you! Did you also send a patch for sg.h to include linux/compiler.h?

Jörg

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