Re: [PATCH] xen: Use 'unsigned int' instead of 'unsigned'

[Jan Beulich]

On 02.03.2020 23:18, Yan Yankovskyi wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 10:11 Jan Beulich wrote:
>> ... evtchn_port_t here and elsewhere.
> 
> There are some interfaces with signed int as a type for port, e.g. in
> include/xen/events.h.
> Should I create additional patch to resolve inconsistency with evtchn
> interface?
> Or you suggest combining these changes into the existing patch?

Signed <-> unsigned conversions would perhaps better go into a
separate patch. But note I'm not the maintainer of this code.

> Also as I understand 'evtchn' and 'port' are essentially the same
> entities from perspective of local domain, related to each other roughly
> like connection and file descriptor pair. What do you think about
> renaming all 'evtchn' arguments and variables to 'port'?
> It will eliminate inconsistencies in the code, for example
> in include/xen/interface/event_channel.h and include/xen/events.h.

I'd welcome this, but the maintainers will have the final say.

Jan