CodingStyle: Fix documentation on use of C99 types. Reality has it that new code is discouraged from using C99 exact width types. Fix the documentation. Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison diff --git a/Documentation/CodingStyle b/Documentation/CodingStyle index 8bb3723..8dd2e77 100644 --- a/Documentation/CodingStyle +++ b/Documentation/CodingStyle @@ -323,8 +323,7 @@ useful only for: Therefore, the Linux-specific 'u8/u16/u32/u64' types and their signed equivalents which are identical to standard types are - permitted -- although they are not mandatory in new code of your - own. + preferred. When editing existing code which already uses one or the other set of types, you should conform to the existing choices in that code.