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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, mingo@kernel.org,
	tglx@linutronix.de, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] kernel: Replace timeconst.pl with a bc script
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:44:09 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <511EC849.6030400@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <511EC7AA.1040606@suse.cz>

On 02/15/2013 03:41 PM, Michal Marek wrote:
> I can merge it into the kbuild tree if wanted. I only have one nipick:
>
>> +/* Division by reciprocal multiplication. */
>> +define fmul(b,n,d) {
>> +       return (2^b*n+d-1)/d;
>> +}
>
> For readability reasons, I suggest to use the same formatting of
> expressions and argument lists like in C:
>
> define fmul(b, n, d) {
>         return (2^b * n + d - 1) / d;
> }
>
> Otherwise, you can add
>

Do you actually think that is more readable?  Personally, I think it 
made it harder to read just because it takes up more space than one can 
quickly glance at.

	-hpa
-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.


  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-15 23:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-14 23:13 [RFC][PATCH] kernel: Replace timeconst.pl with a bc script H. Peter Anvin
2013-02-15 12:01 ` Sam Ravnborg
2013-02-15 23:41 ` Michal Marek
2013-02-15 23:44   ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2013-02-16 22:03     ` Michal Marek
2013-02-16 22:10       ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-02-16 22:50         ` Michal Marek
2013-02-16  1:00   ` H. Peter Anvin

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