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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se>
Cc: James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Conversion to generic boolean
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 10:32:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060828093202.GC8980@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44EFBEFA.2010707@student.ltu.se>

On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 05:24:42AM +0200, Richard Knutsson wrote:
> Hello
> 
> 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.


  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-28  9:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-26  3:24 Conversion to generic boolean Richard Knutsson
2006-08-28  9:32 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2006-08-28  9:45   ` Jesper Juhl
2006-08-29 11:39     ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-08-28 10:58   ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-28 11:11     ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-08-28 12:17     ` Richard Knutsson
2006-08-28 19:15       ` Nicholas Miell
2006-08-28 20:55         ` Richard Knutsson
2006-08-28 21:19           ` Nicholas Miell
2006-08-28 21:55             ` Richard Knutsson
2006-08-29 11:41         ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-08-29 12:17           ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-29 13:26             ` Peter Williams
2006-08-29 13:56               ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-29 12:48           ` Alan Cox
2006-08-29  0:18   ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-29  1:15     ` Nick Piggin
2006-08-29  5:58       ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-31  3:50         ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-09-03 12:51           ` Pavel Machek
2006-08-29  7:29       ` Anton Altaparmakov
2006-08-29 11:46         ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-08-29 12:18           ` Anton Altaparmakov
2006-08-29 11:45     ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-08-29 14:10       ` Richard Knutsson
2006-08-29 15:47       ` Andrew Morton
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-08-29  5:43 linux

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