Re: [PATCH 2/2] gpio: Make "offset" and "unsigned int", not just "unsigned"

From: Doug Anderson
Date: Tue Apr 28 2020 - 20:51:06 EST


Hi,

On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 5:38 PM Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2020-04-28 at 17:23 -0700, Douglas Anderson wrote:
> > When I copied the function prototypes from the GPIO header file into
> > my own driver, checkpatch yelled at me saying that I shouldn't use use
> > "unsigned" but instead should say "unsigned int". Let's make the
> > header file use "unsigned int" so others who copy like I did won't get
> > yelled at.
>
> There are a few other unsigned declarations in the file.

There are? I swear I looked for them before I sent my patch and I
couldn't find them. Then I looked again upon seeing your reply and I
still can't find them. My eyes are bad, though. Maybe you can give
me specifics?


> Maybe do all of them (and remove the unnecessary externs)?

You mean just remove the word "extern" everywhere in this file? Sure,
I can if you want.


> trivial reformatting of the function pointer block too

Wow, I must be totally out of it. Maybe it's the gin and tonic I just
had. I don't understand this comment either. Can you clarify?


-Doug