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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: checkpatch, a patch checking script.
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 01:16:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070428011625.0f048426.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0704280956190.506@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>

On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 10:01:00 +0200 (MEST) Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> wrote:

> And since when is uint32_t wrong? What makes u32 or __u32 better?

There's not much to be said in favour of u32, really.  Except it's shorter
and I can never remember where the underscore goes in uint_32t.

If kernel used u_int32_t globally then the world would probably be a better
place.  But using just the one name has its advantages from a consistency
POV.

box:/usr/src/linux-2.6.21> grep -r '[   \(]u32' . | wc -l
39599
box:/usr/src/linux-2.6.21> grep -r '[   \(]uint32_t' . | wc -l 
5132

CodingStyle permits either variant, fwiw.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-28  8:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-23 14:11 [PATCH 0/9] Kconfig: cleanup s390 v2 Martin Schwidefsky
2007-04-23 16:52 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-04-23 17:45 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-24  7:52   ` Martin Schwidefsky
2007-04-25 18:21   ` Randy Dunlap
2007-04-25 21:30     ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-26  0:24       ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-26  0:32         ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-04-26  1:06           ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-27 14:21             ` patch style checks Andy Whitcroft
2007-04-27 15:44               ` jschopp
2007-04-26  1:39           ` [PATCH 0/9] Kconfig: cleanup s390 v2 Anton Vorontsov
2007-04-26  8:30           ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-26 20:36             ` Randy Dunlap
2007-04-26  0:39         ` Dave Jones
2007-04-26  2:38           ` Randy Dunlap
2007-04-26  3:02             ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-26  4:24               ` Dave Jones
2007-04-28  3:08               ` checkpatch, a patch checking script Dave Jones
2007-04-28  3:36                 ` Roland Dreier
2007-04-28  3:47                   ` Adrian Bunk
2007-04-30  0:43                   ` Randy Dunlap
2007-04-28  5:18                 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-28  5:50                   ` Roland Dreier
2007-04-28 10:52                     ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-28  5:58                   ` Roland Dreier
2007-04-28  8:01                     ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-28  8:16                       ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-04-28 10:53                         ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-29 23:35                       ` Randy Dunlap
2007-04-28 10:48                   ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-28 10:02                     ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-28 10:15                       ` Alan Cox
2007-04-28 11:18                         ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-28 11:32                           ` Alan Cox
2007-04-28 17:06                       ` Dave Jones
2007-04-28 18:11                         ` Jeff Garzik
2007-04-30  0:59                   ` Randy Dunlap
2007-04-28 16:11                 ` Matt Mackall
2007-04-28 17:11                   ` Dave Jones
2007-04-28 17:21                     ` Matt Mackall
2007-04-29 23:37                       ` Randy Dunlap
2007-04-30  0:09                         ` Matt Mackall
2007-04-30  0:18                           ` Randy Dunlap
2007-04-30  1:59                             ` Matt Mackall
2007-04-30 23:59                 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-05-02 14:28                 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-05-02 15:29                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-02 15:32                     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-05-02 19:41                       ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-02 19:55                         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-05-02 20:29                           ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-02 19:08                     ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-02 19:05                   ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-03  7:32                   ` Sébastien Dugué
2007-05-03  9:27                     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-04-26 13:02       ` [PATCH 0/9] Kconfig: cleanup s390 v2 Andy Whitcroft
2007-05-09 11:21   ` Martin Schwidefsky
2007-05-09 16:35     ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-10  7:25       ` Martin Schwidefsky

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