Re: [PATCH 1/2] firmware: Google VPD: import lib_vpd source files

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-11T18:42:44Z

On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 11:15:54AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-04-11 at 16:09 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > Care to use "real" kernel variable types please? u8, u16, and others
> > are you friend, uint8_t really isn't what we prefer, and checkpatch
> > should tell you that...
>
> checkpatch doesn't warn about "u?int\d+_t" types unless
> --strict is enabled and most likely it shouldn't.

For brand new drivers, it's a good thing to run, to keep maintainers
from complaining about obvious things :)

thanks,

greg k-h