linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: page_io: Prefer 'unsigned int' to bare use of 'unsigned'

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Message-Id: <20230614110923.b5ac015ac6e9a2d97f3b40c3@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Wed, 14 Jun 2023 11:09:23 -0700
From:   Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     hexingwei001@...suo.com
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: page_io: Prefer 'unsigned int' to bare use of
 'unsigned'

On Wed, 14 Jun 2023 15:23:44 +0800 hexingwei001@...suo.com wrote:

> Fix the following checkpatch warning:
> 
> mm/page_io.c:87: WARNING: Prefer 'unsigned int' to bare use of 
> 'unsigned'.
> mm/page_io.c:89: WARNING: Prefer 'unsigned int' to bare use of 
> 'unsigned'.
> mm/page_io.c:109: WARNING: Prefer 'unsigned int' to bare use of 
> 'unsigned'.

I'm counting 55 of these in mm/*.c.  If we're going to do this then it
wouild be better to do all at once, plus the header files.

I don't believe that is worth the churn.