Re: [PATCH 07/16] dma-debug: add debugfs interface

From: Joerg Roedel
Date: Wed Jan 14 2009 - 10:22:53 EST


On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 12:08:26AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > +/* Global error count */
> > +static u32 error_count;
> > +
> > +/* Global error show enable*/
> > +static u32 show_all_errors __read_mostly;
> > +/* Number of errors to show */
> > +static u32 show_num_errors = 1;
> > +
> > static u32 num_free_entries;
> > static u32 min_free_entries;
>
> Small detail: please use native C types for non-hardware variables -
> 'unsigned int', 'unsigned long', etc.
>
> u32/u64 is typically used for variables where there is a real significance
> to the precise width of the variable: there's either a hardware or a
> user-space ABI involved.

There is some kind of userspace ABI: all these variables are exported
via debugfs. And debugfs relies on these types.

Joerg

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