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Re: [Xen-devel] [patch] [3/3] dom0_ops explicitly sized types

To: Chris Wright <chrisw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [patch] [3/3] dom0_ops explicitly sized types
From: John Levon <levon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 20:38:05 +0100
Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@xxxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@xxxxxxxxxx>, xen-ppc-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 11:57:46AM -0700, Chris Wright wrote:

> > > Anyway, regardless of any opinion expressed here the Linux gatekeepers
> > > will no doubt insist on __uN. We might as well do it now as change it
> > > later.
> > 
> > And where will userspace, e.g. tools/libxc/xc_linux.c, find the
> > definition of __u64?
> 
> Same place they do for the rest of shared headers (glib-kernheaders,
> for example).  Please use the proper form (u64 internal to kernel, and
> __u64 for header visisble to userspace).  I'm going to have to clean it
> up anyway.

This won't work on platforms that don't provide __u64. Xen needs to
define them somewhere for the userspace.

regards
john

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