Re: [PATCH v4 7/9] mfd: ioc3: Add driver for SGI IOC3 chip

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Mon Aug 12 2019 - 15:52:14 EST


On Sun, 11 Aug 2019 09:32:12 +0200, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:
> > Also please don't use stdint types in the kernel, please try checkpatch
> > to catch coding style issues.
>
> my patch already reduces them and checkpatch only warns about usage of printk
> for the network part. Changing that to dev_warn/dev_err in the mfd patch didn't
> seem the right thing to do. As I'm splitting the conversion patch into a few
> steps I could also replace the printks.

Thanks for looking into it. I was referring to the use of uint32_t
instead of u32. Perhaps checkpatch has to be motivated with the --strict
option to point those out?