linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 06/12] genericirq: make irq

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Date:	Sun, 21 Mar 2010 04:43:46 -0700
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/12] genericirq: make irq_chip related function to take desc

Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk> writes:

> Another detail is that the type of irq is not always unsigned int.  
> Coccinelle will match unsigned int to just unsigned, but there are also 
> occurrences of uint32_t and u_int.  I don't know if it is desirable to 
> preserve these names, or if it would be just as well to put unsigned int 
> everywhere?

The correct type of irq is "unsigned int".  All others that are I know
of are a bit buggy.  Especially the cases that use int.

Eric
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