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Date:   Tue, 11 Jul 2023 16:44:18 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
To:     Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next][resend v1 1/1] netlink: Don't use int as bool
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On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 04:32:59PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 03:45:34PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 03:20:12PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 01:54:18PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 12:21:12PM +0200, Paolo Abeni wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, 2023-07-11 at 09:33 +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > > > > > On Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 01:06:24PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:

...

> > > > > > So what is the outcome of "int - bool + bool" in the line above?
> > > > 
> > > > The same as with int - int [0 .. 1] + int [0 .. 1].
> > > 
> > > No, it is not. bool is defined as _Bool C99 type, so strictly speaking
> > > you are mixing types int - _Bool + _Bool.
> > 
> > 1. The original code already does that. You still haven't reacted on that.
> 
> The original code was int - int + int.

No. You missed the callers part. They are using boolean.

> > 2. Is what you are telling a problema?
> 
> No, I'm saying that you took perfectly correct code which had all types
> aligned and changed it to have mixed type arithmetic.

And after this change it's perfectly correct code with less letters and hidden
promotions (as a parameter to the function) and hence requires less cognitive
energy to parse.

So, the bottom line is the commit message you don't like, is it so?

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko