linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 1/6] mtd: dataflash: Replace C99 types with their kernel counterparts

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Date:   Wed, 19 Apr 2017 09:04:52 -0700
From:   Andrey Smirnov <andrew.smirnov@...il.com>
To:     David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Cc:     linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, Chris Healy <cphealy@...il.com>,
        Brian Norris <computersforpeace@...il.com>,
        Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...e-electrons.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        Cyrille Pitchen <cyrille.pitchen@...el.com>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/6] mtd: dataflash: Replace C99 types with their
 kernel counterparts

[ +cc: Marek, since I accidentally dropped him off CC list ]

On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 8:35 AM, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-04-19 at 08:23 -0700, Andrey Smirnov wrote:
>> No functional change intended.
>
> FWIW I *deliberately* used the proper C datatypes throughout all of the
> MTD code instead of the silly kernel-speshul datatypes. To the extent
> of *fixing* submissions to be written in C when they were using the
> silly kernel types instead.
>
> There is a reason for the __u32 type in userspace APIs. There is
> basically no reason for 'u32' et al, just to save a trivial few
> characters in the type name. We might as well be using the proper
> language types.
>
> I appreciate that not everyone agrees with that, but at least it used
> to be consistent throughout the code I was maintaining. I'll defer to
> the currently active maintainers though...

This conversion was an explicit request from Marek, see
https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=149192751625941

Thanks,
Andrey Smirnov