Re: [PATCH V10 03/19] block: use bio_for_each_bvec() to compute multi-page bvec count

Omar Sandoval
2018-11-16T16:04:39Z

On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 10:19:56AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 02:18:47PM -0800, Omar Sandoval wrote:
> > My only reason to prefer unsigned int is consistency. unsigned int is
> > much more common in the kernel:
> >
> > $ ag --cc -s 'unsigned\s+int' | wc -l
> > 129632
> > $ ag --cc -s 'unsigned\s+(?!char|short|int|long)' | wc -l
> > 22435
> >
> > checkpatch also warns on plain unsigned.
>
> Talk about chicken and egg. unsigned is perfectly valid C, and being
> shorter often helps being more readable. checkpath is as so often
> wrongly opinionated..

Fair enough. Since enough people don't mind bare unsigned in the block
code, I retract my comment :)