[alsa-devel] [PATCHv7] dmaengine: Add support for BCM2835

[Joe Perches]

On Mon, 2013-11-18 at 14:54 +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 04:30:17PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Mon, 2013-11-18 at 13:16 +0100, Florian Meier wrote:
> > > >> +	uint32_t chans_available;
> > > > 
> > > > Why uint32_t?
> > > 
> > > Because it is a bit mask of fixed length that directly comes from the
> > > firmware.
> > 
> > Like one already told you in your i2s patch, please, change that to
> > corresponding u* value, namely u32.
> 
> There's no problem with uint32_t vs u32 - either will do.  u32 is the
> pre-stdint.h Linux definition of a 32-bit unsigned integer.  There's
> no reason why uint32_t isn't perfectly acceptable.  It's a matter of
> author taste which gets used.  (Except where modifications are to an
> existing chunk of code using one or the other - where consistency then
> matters more.)

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