Re: [Outreachy kernel] [PATCH] staging: rtl8188eu: remove implicit bool->int conversions

[Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>]

On Fri, 22 Sep 2017, Aishwarya Pant wrote:

> Implicit type conversions are bad; they hinder readability of code and have
> potential to cause bugs. Here the variable wait_ack is always supplied a bool
> value while in function declarations it is defined as an int type. Fix it by
> defining wait_ack a bool type in all usages.

These are two patches on the same file.  They need to be in a series, so
Greg doesn't have to figure out whether they depend on each other.

Also, since you are changing the function headers, it would be very nice
if you could also change them to respect the 80 character limit.

julia

>
> Signed-off-by: Aishwarya Pant <aishpant@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c
> index 2db2ca6..99f3d5c 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c
> @@ -1196,7 +1196,7 @@ static void issue_assocreq(struct adapter *padapter)
>  }
>
>  /* when wait_ack is true, this function should be called at process context */
> -static int _issue_nulldata(struct adapter *padapter, unsigned char *da, unsigned int power_mode, int wait_ack)
> +static int _issue_nulldata(struct adapter *padapter, unsigned char *da, unsigned int power_mode, bool wait_ack)
>  {
>  	int ret = _FAIL;
>  	struct xmit_frame			*pmgntframe;
> @@ -1316,7 +1316,7 @@ int issue_nulldata(struct adapter *padapter, unsigned char *da, unsigned int pow
>  }
>
>  /* when wait_ack is true, this function should be called at process context */
> -static int _issue_qos_nulldata(struct adapter *padapter, unsigned char *da, u16 tid, int wait_ack)
> +static int _issue_qos_nulldata(struct adapter *padapter, unsigned char *da, u16 tid, bool wait_ack)
>  {
>  	int ret = _FAIL;
>  	struct xmit_frame			*pmgntframe;
> @@ -1442,7 +1442,7 @@ int issue_qos_nulldata(struct adapter *padapter, unsigned char *da, u16 tid, int
>  	return ret;
>  }
>
> -static int _issue_deauth(struct adapter *padapter, unsigned char *da, unsigned short reason, u8 wait_ack)
> +static int _issue_deauth(struct adapter *padapter, unsigned char *da, unsigned short reason, bool wait_ack)
>  {
>  	struct xmit_frame			*pmgntframe;
>  	struct pkt_attrib			*pattrib;
> --
> 2.7.4
>
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