linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] mtd: partitions: redboot: fix style issues

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Date:   Thu, 20 May 2021 17:36:19 +0200
From:   Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>
To:     Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
Cc:     Corentin Labbe <clabbe@...libre.com>,
        Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...tlin.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        Vignesh R <vigneshr@...com>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mtd: partitions: redboot: fix style issues

Hello,

Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org> wrote on Thu, 20 May 2021
17:24:26 +0200:

> On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 1:49 PM Corentin Labbe <clabbe@...libre.com> wrote:
> 
> > This patch fixes easy checkpatch issues.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Corentin Labbe <clabbe@...libre.com>  
> (...)
> > -    uint32_t     flash_base;    // Address within FLASH of image  
> (...)
> > +       u32       flash_base;    // Address within FLASH of image  
> 
> Does checkpatch complain about this? At one point the MTD maintainer
> disliked the u32/u16/u8 types and explicitly wanted to use the C
> standard library types, and it's the kind of eccentric maintainer
> deviations we accommodate for.

I suppose this happened quite some time ago? :)

I've never heard Richard nor Boris complaining about it, nor will I.

Cheers,
Miquèl