Sorting out the datatype mess
Richard Hughes
hughsient at gmail.com
Tue Sep 27 02:44:36 PDT 2005
On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 09:40 +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Hi again!
>
> Martin Pitt [2005-09-27 8:52 +0200]:
> > I will create a new clean patch against hal CVS HEAD, now that there
> > seems to be an agreement to use the proposed solution.
>
> I did that now. Surprisingly CVS HEAD only contained one single usage
> of __u8 and no other kernel datatypes any more, since volume_id was
> recently synced to the latest upstream version which did the same
> switch to the userspace data types :-)
>
> So the updated patch against HEAD at [1] fixes this last instance in
> drive_id.c, removes the configure.in check and replaces the inclusions
> asm/types.h and sys/types.h with stdint.h, which is preferable since
> stdint.h is an ISO C standard.
>
> Thanks for considering and have a nice day!
I've compiled and tested this, and applied to cvs HEAD.
Many thanks Martin.
Richard.
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