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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Jan Tulak <jtulak@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mkfs: unify numeric types of main variables in main()
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 10:09:09 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170420000909.GI12369@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170419153025.10368-1-jtulak@redhat.com>

On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 05:30:24PM +0200, Jan Tulak wrote:
> Followup of my "[xfsprogs] Do we need so many data types for user input?" email.
> This version has bool for flags and uses PRIu64 for printing 64bit values.
> 
> Other issues from RFC, that I didn't get a satisfactory feedback to:
>  * __uint64_t is used because it is declared in xfsprogs, so unless there is a
>    reason to not use it (e.g. the declared type is just for some special use,
>    or is obsolete), I'm sticking to it.

uint64_t is a standard C99 type. Please use it over an internal
type that we plan to get rid of.  i.e.

http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2016-01/msg00386.html

These patches were never finalised/finished because of conflicts
with all the COW work that was pending at the time. This type
conversion still needs to be picked up and finished...

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-04-20  0:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-19 15:30 [PATCH 1/2] mkfs: unify numeric types of main variables in main() Jan Tulak
2017-04-19 15:30 ` [PATCH 2/2] mkfs: remove long long type casts Jan Tulak
2017-04-20  8:33   ` [PATCH 2/2 v2] " Jan Tulak
2017-04-25  1:40   ` [PATCH 2/2] " Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-04-20  0:09 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2017-04-20  8:06   ` [PATCH 1/2] mkfs: unify numeric types of main variables in main() Jan Tulak
2017-04-20  8:33 ` [PATCH 1/2 v2] " Jan Tulak
2017-04-20 13:28   ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-04-20 13:57     ` Jan Tulak
2017-04-26  3:58   ` Eric Sandeen
2017-04-26  7:58     ` Jan Tulak
2017-05-09 15:49       ` Eric Sandeen
2017-04-20 13:58 ` [PATCH 1/2 v3] " Jan Tulak
2017-04-25  1:37   ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-04-25 12:07     ` Jan Tulak
2017-04-26  1:57       ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-04-26  8:03         ` Jan Tulak

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