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From: linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Use of data types
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:52:40 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100118135240.GC2695@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100118134215.GB16182@darwin>

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 02:42:15PM +0100, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
> El Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 02:41:20PM +0100 Uwe Kleine-K?nig ha dit:
> 
> > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 09:43:12PM +0900, Khushhua Mogambo wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >   I starting to port Linux kernel to my companies new ARM based
> > > SoC and development board.
> > > 
> > > Some of the regs is 16bits wide and some is 32bits width. I ask if
> > > my using u16 and u32 in place of 'unsigned short' and 'unsigned int'
> > > in the whole porting would be acceptable or not?
> > > 
> > > In different wording, using only u16 and u32 always is considered good
> > > quality or bad?
> > I prefer using u32 over int.  Still more if your register space isn't uniform.
> 
> ditto
> 
> how about using the C99 types uint32_t, ... in the kernel? 

You might want to read Documentation/CodingStyle chapter 5, which covers
some of these issues.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-18 13:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-18 12:43 Use of data types Khushhua Mogambo
2010-01-18 13:41 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2010-01-18 13:42   ` Matthias Kaehlcke
2010-01-18 13:52     ` Russell King - ARM Linux [this message]
     [not found]     ` <4B546900.3020506@ru.mvista.com>
2010-01-19 11:57       ` Khushhua Mogambo
2010-01-19 17:42         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-01-20 12:15           ` Khushhua Mogambo
2010-01-20  5:25         ` Ben Dooks
2010-01-18 13:48   ` Russell King - ARM Linux

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