Re: [PATCH 5/5] Staging: comedi: Fix type issue in ni_tio.c

[Joe Perches]

On Mon, 2016-03-14 at 16:36 +0530, Ravishankar Karkala Mallikarjunayya wrote:
> This is a patch to the ni_tio.c file that fixes up a type issues
> found by the checkpatch.pl tool.
> i.e. Prefer kernel type 'u64' over 'uint64_t'
[]
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_tio.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_tio.c
[]
> @@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ static void ni_tio_reset_count_and_disarm(struct ni_gpct *counter)
>  static uint64_t ni_tio_clock_period_ps(const struct ni_gpct *counter,
>  				       unsigned generic_clock_source)
>  {
> -	uint64_t clock_period_ps;
> +	u64 clock_period_ps;

Please don't blinkeredly fix checkpatch messages.
Understand the code, not just the checkpatch output.

This function returns a uint64_t, maybe it should be
converted to u64 as well.