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

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Message-ID: <20260205192935.74bc7d92@jic23-huawei>
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2026 19:29:35 +0000
From: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@...wei.com>, Jean-Baptiste Maneyrol
 <jean-baptiste.maneyrol@....com>, linux-iio@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.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 Tue, 3 Feb 2026 13:21:13 +0200
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 15, 2025 at 06:50:01PM +0000, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> > On Sun,  9 Nov 2025 20:24:36 +0100
> > Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
> >   
> > > 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.  
> > No problem with the change but this description made me think
> > that this was going to be a huge patch touching lots of instances.
> > 
> > Probably needs a rewrite to not say 'full of' :)  
> 
> Can you tweak that whilst applying, please?
> 

Ah. I'd accidentally marked this in patch work as handled and
forgotten about it.

Anyhow picked it up now with a tweak to the description.

Note I'll only be pushing that tree at as testing until rc1.