On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 11:41 AM, David Miller [off-list ref] wrote:

From: David Laight <redacted>
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2016 16:37:41 +0000

quoted

From: Lucas Tanure

quoted

Sent: 30 January 2016 13:18
As suggested by checkpatch.pl:
CHECK: Prefer kernel type 'uX' over 'uintX_t'

One might ask why?

We have consistently done this, and consistency is enough of an
argument.

Also, uintX_t is verbose and does not add anything to readability.