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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 1/4] staging : comedi : fix type issues in s626.c
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On Tue, 2016-05-31 at 11:29 +0100, Ian Abbott wrote:
> On 28/05/16 06:26, Ravishankar Karkala Mallikarjunayya wrote:
> >
> > This is a patch to the s626.c file that fixes up a type issues like
> > i.e Prefer kernel type 'u8' over 'uint8_t'
> >      Prefer kernel type 'u16' over 'uint16_t'
> >      Prefer kernel type 'u32' over 'uint32_t'
> >      Prefer kernel type 's16' over 'int16_t'
> >      Prefer kernel type 's32' over 'int32_t'
> > found by the checkpatch.pl tool.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ravishankar Karkala Mallikarjunayya
> > ---
> > changes since v1: Rework
> > ---
> >   drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/s626.c | 212 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
> >   1 file changed, 106 insertions(+), 106 deletions(-)
> >
> Thanks.  It would have been nice if the checkpatch.pl tool detected 
> _all_ the instances of these types.  As a result of this patch, s626.c 
> contains a mixture of the different integer type styles.  I guess we can 
> fix that up later though.

Seems trivial enough to do.

There was a possible issue with converting int_t types that
were used as uapi function arguments.

checkpatch currently warns only about variable declarations and
not function declarations.  It doesn't convert casts either.

Should it?

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