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
