Re: [PATCH 3/3] types: use fixed width types without double-underscore prefix

From: Masahiro Yamada
Date: Tue May 15 2018 - 21:08:43 EST


Hi Andrew,

2018-05-16 7:59 GMT+09:00 Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Tue, 15 May 2018 11:22:05 +0900 Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> This header file is not exported. It is safe to reference types
>> without double-underscore prefix.
>>
>
> It may be safe to do this, but why is it desirable?


It is shorter. That's all.
If it is a noise commit, please feel free to drop it.


BTW, a large amount of kernel-space code
uses underscore-prefixed types.
I wonder if we could check it by checkpatch.pl or something...


>> index be15897..9834e90 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/types.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/types.h
>> @@ -10,14 +10,14 @@
>> #define DECLARE_BITMAP(name,bits) \
>> unsigned long name[BITS_TO_LONGS(bits)]
>>
>> -typedef __u32 __kernel_dev_t;
>> +typedef u32 __kernel_dev_t;
>>
>> ...
>>



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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada