Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752495AbbE0DXr (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 May 2015 23:23:47 -0400 Received: from smtprelay0145.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.145]:43245 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751504AbbE0DXq (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 May 2015 23:23:46 -0400 X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-Spam-Summary: 2,0,0,,d41d8cd98f00b204,joe@perches.com,:::::,RULES_HIT:41:355:379:541:599:988:989:1260:1277:1311:1313:1314:1345:1359:1373:1437:1515:1516:1518:1534:1538:1568:1593:1594:1711:1714:1730:1747:1777:1792:2110:2393:2559:2562:2693:2828:3138:3139:3140:3141:3142:3622:3865:3867:3868:3872:3873:4321:5007:6261:7903:8828:10004:10400:10471:10848:11232:11658:11914:12517:12519:12740:13069:13071:13095:13160:13229:13255:13311:13357:21080,0,RBL:none,CacheIP:none,Bayesian:0.5,0.5,0.5,Netcheck:none,DomainCache:0,MSF:not bulk,SPF:fn,MSBL:0,DNSBL:none,Custom_rules:0:0:0 X-HE-Tag: hand27_3a87ce2fa031 X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 1480 Message-ID: <1432697023.2846.140.camel@perches.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts:checkpatch - Do not give error if static bool or global bool variables are assigned to false value. From: Joe Perches To: Shailendra Verma Cc: Andy Whitcroft , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 20:23:43 -0700 In-Reply-To: References: <1432688995-2931-1-git-send-email-shailendra.capricorn@gmail.com> <1432691820.2846.133.camel@perches.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.12.11-0ubuntu3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 676 Lines: 24 On Wed, 2015-05-27 at 08:43 +0530, Shailendra Verma wrote: > Hello Joe, > > Thanks for the clarification. So I will change the error message as > suggested by you and will send the patch to you. Hello Shailendra. My humble apologies to you. I totally misunderstood what you were writing. I guess the first sentence threw me for a loop. It makes sense to avoid emitting a warning message with bool foo = false; cheers, Joe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/