Re: [PATCH 1/2] Staging: fsl-mc: include: mc: Kernel type 's16' preferred over 'int16_t'

[Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>]

On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 12:07:39PM +0100, Shiva Kerdel wrote:
> Follow the kernel type preferrences of using 's16' over 'int16_t'.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shiva Kerdel <shiva@exdev.nl>
> Acked-by: Stuart Yoder <stuart.yoder@nxp.com>
> ---
> Changes for v2:
>     - corrected an error in the log message, wrote 's32' instead of 's16'.
> Changes for v3:
>     - added the missing annotates.
> Changes for v4:
>     - corrected patch subject to version 4.
> 
>  drivers/staging/fsl-mc/include/mc-bus.h | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/fsl-mc/include/mc-bus.h b/drivers/staging/fsl-mc/include/mc-bus.h
> index e915574..c7cad87 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/fsl-mc/include/mc-bus.h
> +++ b/drivers/staging/fsl-mc/include/mc-bus.h
> @@ -42,8 +42,8 @@ struct msi_domain_info;
>   */
>  struct fsl_mc_resource_pool {
>  	enum fsl_mc_pool_type type;
> -	int16_t max_count;
> -	int16_t free_count;
> +	s16 max_count;

My understanding is that this has to be signed because the design of
this driver is that we keep adding devices until the the counter
overflows.  After that there are a couple tests for
"if (WARN_ON(res_pool->max_count < 0)) " which prevent the driver from
working again.

This all seems pretty horrible.

regards,
dan carpenter