Re: [PATCH] Staging: comedi: drivers: comedi_test: Avoid multiple line dereference

[Joe Perches]

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