Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 16 Nov 2018 10:19:56 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH V10 03/19] block: use bio_for_each_bvec() to compute multi-page bvec count |
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On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 02:18:47PM -0800, Omar Sandoval wrote: > My only reason to prefer unsigned int is consistency. unsigned int is > much more common in the kernel: > > $ ag --cc -s 'unsigned\s+int' | wc -l > 129632 > $ ag --cc -s 'unsigned\s+(?!char|short|int|long)' | wc -l > 22435 > > checkpatch also warns on plain unsigned.
Talk about chicken and egg. unsigned is perfectly valid C, and being shorter often helps being more readable. checkpath is as so often wrongly opinionated..
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