linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] firmware: Google VPD: import lib

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Message-ID: <c58eb125-db5d-0553-6ffe-a4697000f58c@collabora.com>
Date:   Tue, 11 Apr 2017 16:28:45 +0200
From:   Thierry Escande <thierry.escande@...labora.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] firmware: Google VPD: import lib_vpd source files

Hi Greg

On 11/04/2017 16:09, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 11:14:30AM +0200, Thierry Escande wrote:
>> +#include <linux/export.h>
>> +
>> +#include "vpd_decode.h"
>> +
>> +static int decode_len(const int32_t max_len, const uint8_t *in,
>> +		      int32_t *length, int32_t *decoded_len)
>> +{
>> +	uint8_t more;
>
> 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...

By default checkpatch doesn't warn about types unless --strict is 
specified... Sorry about that.

Regards,
  Thierry