Re: [patch] leds: renesas-tpu: cleanup a small type issue

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On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 11:01:34AM -0700, Bryan Wu wrote:
> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 5:02 AM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 10:59:35AM +0200, walter harms wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> Am 29.05.2013 23:15, schrieb Dan Carpenter:
> >> > On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 07:34:39PM +0200, walter harms wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> int would be a more "natural" choice.
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> > You should never use signed types for a bit field.  That's just
> >> > asking for a sign expansion bug.
> >>
> >> my idea was more to use unsigned int instead of u16.
> >> Personally i try to avoid this (artificial) types as much as possible,
> >
> > Obviously no one wants to go nuts with the type specifiers like the
> > e1000e people who never use "int" and only "s32".  But in this case
> > u16 is more readable and more accurate.
> >
> 
> Do you mind to clean up this driver with u16? or I will do it.

I resent the patch already.  Hopefully, that's ok?

regards,
dan carpenter

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