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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] leds: renesas-tpu: cleanup a small type issue
Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 05:45:42 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130531054541.GO23987@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130529070150.GC25133@debian>

On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 11:01:34AM -0700, Bryan Wu wrote:
> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 5:02 AM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 10:59:35AM +0200, walter harms wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> Am 29.05.2013 23:15, schrieb Dan Carpenter:
> >> > On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 07:34:39PM +0200, walter harms wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> int would be a more "natural" choice.
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> > You should never use signed types for a bit field.  That's just
> >> > asking for a sign expansion bug.
> >>
> >> my idea was more to use unsigned int instead of u16.
> >> Personally i try to avoid this (artificial) types as much as possible,
> >
> > Obviously no one wants to go nuts with the type specifiers like the
> > e1000e people who never use "int" and only "s32".  But in this case
> > u16 is more readable and more accurate.
> >
> 
> Do you mind to clean up this driver with u16? or I will do it.

I resent the patch already.  Hopefully, that's ok?

regards,
dan carpenter


  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-05-31  5:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-29  7:02 [patch] leds: renesas-tpu: cleanup a small type issue Dan Carpenter
2013-05-29  7:21 ` walter harms
2013-05-29  7:45 ` Dan Carpenter
2013-05-29 16:59 ` Bryan Wu
2013-05-29 21:09   ` [patch v2] " Dan Carpenter
2013-05-29 17:34 ` [patch] " walter harms
2013-05-29 21:15 ` Dan Carpenter
2013-05-30  8:59 ` walter harms
2013-05-30 12:02 ` Dan Carpenter
2013-05-30 17:59 ` Bryan Wu
2013-05-30 18:01 ` Bryan Wu
2013-05-31  5:44 ` Dan Carpenter
2013-05-31  5:45 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2013-05-31  6:38 ` Bryan Wu

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