Re: [PATCH V10 03/19] block: use bio_for_each_bvec() to compute multi-page bvec count
From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Fri Nov 16 2018 - 04:20:03 EST
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..