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

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Message-ID: <20210520180747.03fd60b8@xps13>
Date:   Thu, 20 May 2021 18:07:47 +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


Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org> wrote on Thu, 20 May 2021
18:00:04 +0200:

> On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 5:36 PM Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com> wrote:
> > 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.  
> 
> Yes that was a specific David Woodhouse preference.
> I'm too old!

Don't be sad, the new trend is to be sleek. In the dark I worship
variables declaration in a reverse Christmas tree order ;-)