linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] iio: imu: inv_icm42600: Convert to uXX and sXX integer types

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Message-ID: <CAHp75Ve68H448v3Tgv930yoMYCCKVC3kefuP+Rermj7SaiP41g@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2025 17:33:56 +0300
From: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To: Jean-Baptiste Maneyrol <Jean-Baptiste.Maneyrol@....com>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>, 
	Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@...wei.com>, 
	"linux-iio@...r.kernel.org" <linux-iio@...r.kernel.org>, 
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>, 
	David Lechner <dlechner@...libre.com>, Nuno Sá <nuno.sa@...log.com>, 
	Andy Shevchenko <andy@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] iio: imu: inv_icm42600: Convert to uXX and sXX
 integer types

On Mon, Jun 16, 2025 at 5:16 PM Jean-Baptiste Maneyrol
<Jean-Baptiste.Maneyrol@....com> wrote:

> thanks a lot for having done all the work.

Please, avoid top-posting!

> Do you think it is possible to add a fixes tag so it can be backported to ease automatic backport of further patches?
> Otherwise for sure all further fixes will have to be backported manually.

The idea behind the series that it may depend on some kind of
cleanups. In such a case (according to Greg KH) no need to have Fixes
tag on a cleanup, because it's confusing. On the contrary the
infrastructure for stable kernels will catch this up. You need to
follow the Documentation on how to submit for stable (basically the
main hint is to use stable@ in the Cc line _inside_ the commit
message, as a tag).

> The driver code is full of intXX_t and uintXX_t types which is
> not the pattern we use in the IIO subsystem. Switch the driver
> to use kernel internal types for that. No functional changes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
> ---
>
> As noted before the pattern is used in less than 10% files in IIO,
> So it's safe to assume that IIO prefers uXX/sXX types over C99 ones.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko