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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Staging: comedi: drivers: comedi_test: Avoid multiple line dereference
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On Wed, 2017-02-22 at 00:31 +0800, Cheah Kok Cheong wrote:
> > Another option could be using the typedefs from include/linux/types.h,
> > e.g. ushort. However, this might require changing other declarations as
> > well to keep consistency.
>
> Thanks for the idea. I counted seven instances of 'unsigned short'
> in this file so it's not viable for our situation.

I believe using ushort is relatively undesirable as
"unsigned short" is preferred ~10:1 in the kernel

$ git grep -w ushort | wc -l
1381
$ git grep -E "\bunsigned\s+short\b" | wc -l
11288

$ git grep --name-only -w "ushort" | wc -l
129
$ git grep --name-only -E "\bunsigned\s+short\b" | wc -l
2497

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