Re: [PATCH v06 04/36] uapi scsi/scsi_netlink_fc.h: use __u16, __u32 and __u64 from linux/types.h

[Mikko Rapeli]

Hi,

On Sun, Aug 06, 2017 at 11:22:53AM -0700, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Sun, 2017-08-06 at 18:43 +0200, Mikko Rapeli wrote:
> > Fixes userspace compilation errors like:
> > 
> > scsi/scsi_netlink_fc.h:60:2: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list 
> > before âuint64_tâ
> 
> Rather than patching the kernel, why not #include <stdint.h> in your
> userspace programme?

The userspace program is actually a test which checks that uapi headers
compile alone because several headers are not compiling at all and/or
require special tricks. The test is available here:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=150203944104544&w=2

I have tried that approach before but then:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/6/1/160

For some subsystems like fuse the above message was not enough and they
are including stdint.h in userspace. What shall we do with this old
scsi header file?

-Mikko