Use of data types

[Uwe Kleine-König]

Hello,

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 09:43:12PM +0900, Khushhua Mogambo wrote:
> Hi
>   I starting to port Linux kernel to my companies new ARM based
> SoC and development board.
> 
> Some of the regs is 16bits wide and some is 32bits width. I ask if
> my using u16 and u32 in place of 'unsigned short' and 'unsigned int'
> in the whole porting would be acceptable or not?
> 
> In different wording, using only u16 and u32 always is considered good
> quality or bad?
I prefer using u32 over int.  Still more if your register space isn't uniform.

Best regards
Uwe

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