netdev - Re: [PATCH v4 7/9] mfd: ioc3: Add driver for SGI IOC3 chip

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Date:   Mon, 12 Aug 2019 12:52:02 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
To:     Thomas Bogendoerfer <tbogendoerfer@...e.de>
Cc:     Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
        Paul Burton <paul.burton@...s.com>,
        James Hogan <jhogan@...nel.org>,
        Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
        Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@...aro.org>,
        Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@...ertech.it>,
        Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>,
        Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@...emap.net>, linux-mips@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-input@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-rtc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-serial@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 7/9] mfd: ioc3: Add driver for SGI IOC3 chip

On Sun, 11 Aug 2019 09:32:12 +0200, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:
> > Also please don't use stdint types in the kernel, please try checkpatch
> > to catch coding style issues.  
> 
> my patch already reduces them and checkpatch only warns about usage of printk
> for the network part. Changing that to dev_warn/dev_err in the mfd patch didn't
> seem the right thing to do. As I'm splitting the conversion patch into a few
> steps I could also replace the printks.

Thanks for looking into it. I was referring to the use of uint32_t
instead of u32. Perhaps checkpatch has to be motivated with the --strict
option to point those out?