Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751566AbdLLFuI (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Dec 2017 00:50:08 -0500 Received: from mail-it0-f65.google.com ([209.85.214.65]:35408 "EHLO mail-it0-f65.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750731AbdLLFuG (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Dec 2017 00:50:06 -0500 X-Google-Smtp-Source: ACJfBou6r1pE7rlRbHbj63/K4EKHFB7Lan9iNYf+T3TXnaX9ejOYZgD3U5PuGOLy5Icsq1m7FrompQ== Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 21:50:03 -0800 (PST) From: David Rientjes X-X-Sender: rientjes@chino.kir.corp.google.com To: Yaowei Bai cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] make some functions return bool In-Reply-To: <1513047319-22302-1-git-send-email-baiyaowei@cmss.chinamobile.com> Message-ID: References: <1513047319-22302-1-git-send-email-baiyaowei@cmss.chinamobile.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.10 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 394 Lines: 11 On Mon, 11 Dec 2017, Yaowei Bai wrote: > This patchset makes some *_is_* like functions return bool because > these functions only use true or false as their return values. > > No functional changes. > I think the concern about this type of patchset in the past is that it is unnecessary churn and makes it more time consuming to research git history without any significant improvement.