On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 5:28 PM, Somya Anand <somyaanand214@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello Daniel, > > I have started reading about IIO drivers and I have a doubt in > adis16220_read_16bit(...) function in the file iio/accel/adis16220_core.c. > > In this function what is the use of declaring 'val' as s16? and then > typecasting it later for the function adis_read_reg_16(). > > Instead, we can simply use u16 as data type for this. Is there any > significance of using 's16' ? Hi Somya, I am not sure about this. It looks like we can directly use u16 for val. Perhaps, someone from linux-iio could shed some light on this. thanks, Daniel. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-iio" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html