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From:   Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Date:   Sun, 9 Jun 2019 16:14:13 +0900
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] media: do not use C++ style comments in uapi headers
To:     Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
        Linux Media Mailing List <linux-media@vger.kernel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
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Hi Joe,

On Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 2:06 AM Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> Perhaps a checkpatch change too:
>
> The first block updates unsigned only bitfields
> The second tests uapi definitions and suggests "__<kernel_types"

Good.

In addition,

"warn if __u8, __u16, __u32, __u64 are used outside of uapi/"

Lots of kernel-space headers use __u{8,16,32,64} instead of u{8,16,32,64}
just because developers often miss to understand when to use
the underscore-prefixed types.

-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada