On Tue, 2017-04-11 at 20:42 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 11:15:54AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > > On Tue, 2017-04-11 at 16:09 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > Care to use "real" kernel variable types please? u8, u16, and others > > > are you friend, uint8_t really isn't what we prefer, and checkpatch > > > should tell you that... > > > > checkpatch doesn't warn about "u?int\d+_t" types unless > > --strict is enabled and most likely it shouldn't. > > For brand new drivers, it's a good thing to run, to keep maintainers > from complaining about obvious things :)
--strict emits some messages that are either unacceptable or unnecessary to some maintainers. 'course checkpatch itself is unacceptable and unnecessary to some maintainers too. cheers, Joe
