[PATCH] KVM: Replaces 'unsigned' with 'unsigned int' in the codebase

[joe@perches.com (Joe Perches)]

On Tue, 2017-06-27 at 15:06 +0300, Roman Storozhenko wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 12:01:25PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > On 27/06/2017 11:54, Roman Storozhenko wrote:
> > > Signed-off-by: Roman Storozhenko <romeusmeister@gmail.com>
> > > ---
> > >  virt/kvm/arm/arm.c        |  2 +-
> > >  virt/kvm/coalesced_mmio.c |  2 +-
> > >  virt/kvm/eventfd.c        | 10 ++++++----
> > >  virt/kvm/irqchip.c        |  7 ++++---
> > >  virt/kvm/kvm_main.c       | 16 ++++++++--------
> > >  5 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
> > 
> > This change is pointless.  Contributors to KVM should know what
> > "unsigned" means.
> 
> Paolo, thanks that you mentioned this. But I have a question - is this just
> useless or this is an error?

(Not Paulo and my 2c) Neither really.

> I saw many places in the codebase where 'unsigned int' is used. That why I
> decided to make the codebase more standartized from the style point of
> view.

In virt/kvm, there are 16 lines with unsigned, 160 with unsigned int

<shrug>, Both statements are correct, yes, it's kinda pointless,
and, yes, it does standardize the declarations.

It's entirely up the the maintainers (Paulo and Radim) to apply
or reject this style-only trivial patch.  The compiler doesn't care.