I'd like to register my vote of disapproval of a move to stdint.
u8/u16/u32 are a perfectly fine set of types and the Linux kernel uses them a lot. We owe our usage of these short type names to our Linux kernel heritage. Besides that, they are very convenient to type und read due to their short names. I stopped counting how often I typed u_int32t instead of uint32_t. We're not userspace, so we have to provide our own stdint.h anyway.
Let's just standardize on the short type names.
Regards, Carl-Daniel