Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964819AbWH1MKl (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Aug 2006 08:10:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964838AbWH1MKl (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Aug 2006 08:10:41 -0400 Received: from gepetto.dc.ltu.se ([130.240.42.40]:39355 "EHLO gepetto.dc.ltu.se") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964819AbWH1MKk (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Aug 2006 08:10:40 -0400 Message-ID: <44F2DEDC.3020608@student.ltu.se> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 14:17:32 +0200 From: Richard Knutsson User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.8-1.1.fc4 (X11/20060501) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Engelhardt CC: Christoph Hellwig , James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Conversion to generic boolean References: <44EFBEFA.2010707@student.ltu.se> <20060828093202.GC8980@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1406 Lines: 48 Jan Engelhardt wrote: >>>Just would like to ask if you want patches for: >>> >>> >>Total NACK to any of this boolean ididocy. I very much hope you didn't >>get the impression you actually have a chance to get this merged. >> >> >> >>>* (Most importent, may introduce bugs if left alone) >>>Fixing boolean checking, ex: >>>if (bool == FALSE) >>>to >>>if (!bool) >>> >>> >>this one of course makes sense, but please do it without introducing >>any boolean type. Getting rid of all the TRUE/FALSE defines and converting >>all scsi drivers to classic C integer as boolean semantics would be >>very welcome janitorial work. >> >> > >I don't get it. You object to the 'idiocy' >(http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/27/281), but find the x==FALSE -> !x >a good thing? > > That is error-prone. Not "==FALSE" but what happens if x is (for some reason) not 1 and then "if (x==TRUE)". There has been suggestions of doing: if (x != FALSE) or if (!x == !TRUE) but a simple "if (x)" is (in my opinion) the correct way. Then that there is some objections booleans not being the "classical C"-way, is another story. >Jan Engelhardt > > Richard Knutsson - 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/