linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Staging: comedi: drivers: comedi

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Date:   Tue, 21 Feb 2017 09:22:25 -0800
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Cheah Kok Cheong <thrust73@...il.com>,
        Valentin Rothberg <valentinrothberg@...il.com>
Cc:     Ian Abbott <abbotti@....co.uk>, hsweeten@...ionengravers.com,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staging: comedi: drivers: comedi_test: Avoid multiple
 line dereference

On Wed, 2017-02-22 at 00:31 +0800, Cheah Kok Cheong wrote:
> > Another option could be using the typedefs from include/linux/types.h,
> > e.g. ushort.  However, this might require changing other declarations as
> > well to keep consistency.
> 
> Thanks for the idea. I counted seven instances of 'unsigned short'
> in this file so it's not viable for our situation.

I believe using ushort is relatively undesirable as
"unsigned short" is preferred ~10:1 in the kernel

$ git grep -w ushort | wc -l
1381
$ git grep -E "\bunsigned\s+short\b" | wc -l
11288

$ git grep --name-only -w "ushort" | wc -l
129
$ git grep --name-only -E "\bunsigned\s+short\b" | wc -l
2497