linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] media: Add support for the AM/FM radio chip KT0913 from KT Micro.

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Date:   Fri, 17 Jul 2020 02:51:18 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@...all.nl>,
        Santiago Hormazabal <santiagohssl@...il.com>,
        linux-media@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel@...labora.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] media: Add support for the AM/FM radio chip KT0913
 from KT Micro.

On Fri, 2020-07-17 at 11:29 +0200, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> It's standard linux codingstyle to use lowercase for hex numbers.
> Can you change that throughout the source for the next version?

Is there a standard?  It's not in coding-style.rst.

While I prefer lowercase too, it seems the kernel has
only ~2:1 preference for lowercase to uppercase hex.

$ git grep -ohP '\b0[xX][0-9a-f]+\b' | grep [a-f] | wc -l
1149833
$ git grep -ohP '\b0[xX][0-9A-F]+\b' | grep [A-F] | wc -l
575781