On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 6:37 PM, ron minnich rminnich@gmail.com wrote:
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.
I personally don't think there should be any sort of standard. We should accept patches that come in any form. I also might add that the kernel allows such types: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/include/...
I haven't heard any technical arguments as to only allow the short names, and our own stdint.h provides the uintX_t variants. For the people that find typing uintX_t hard then they are free to use the short ones. I don't think that adds any barrier to readability. Both sets of types describe the bit width which is the most important.
-Aaron