[PATCH V10 03/19] block: use bio_for_each_bvec() to compute multi-page bvec count

Gao Xiang gaoxiang25 at huawei.com
Fri Nov 16 20:41:47 AEDT 2018


On 2018/11/16 17:19, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 02:18:47PM -0800, Omar Sandoval wrote:
>> My only reason to prefer unsigned int is consistency. unsigned int is
>> much more common in the kernel:
>>
>> $ ag --cc -s 'unsigned\s+int' | wc -l
>> 129632
>> $ ag --cc -s 'unsigned\s+(?!char|short|int|long)' | wc -l
>> 22435
>>
>> checkpatch also warns on plain unsigned.
> 
> Talk about chicken and egg.  unsigned is perfectly valid C, and being
> shorter often helps being more readable.  checkpath is as so often
> wrongly opinionated..
> 

sigh...I personally tend to use "unsigned" instead of "unsigned int" as well,
but checkpatch.pl also suggests erofs to use "unsigned int" :-(

Thanks,
Gao Xiang


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