Standardizing on the short names is easy. Converting to them is even easier, via spatch. I'll +2 such patches :-)
We can make the cut in less time than it takes to discuss it :-) I'm not that concerned either way, except that, historically, coreboot has gone with the short names. ron On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd like to register my vote of disapproval of a move to stdint. > > u8/u16/u32 are a perfectly fine set of types and the Linux kernel uses > them a lot. > We owe our usage of these short type names to our Linux kernel heritage. > Besides that, they are very convenient to type und read due to their > short names. I stopped counting how often I typed u_int32t instead of > uint32_t. > We're not userspace, so we have to provide our own stdint.h anyway. > > Let's just standardize on the short type names. > > Regards, > Carl-Daniel > > -- > http://www.hailfinger.org/ > > > -- > coreboot mailing list: [email protected] > http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
