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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staging:android: Silence some compiler warnings
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 14:33:47 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120225143347.GA4831@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1330084320-15557-1-git-send-email-ruan.zhengwang@gmail.com>

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On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 12:03:56PM +0800, Zhengwang Ruan wrote:
> >>  static int binder_debug_no_lock;
> >> -module_param_named(proc_no_lock, binder_debug_no_lock, bool, S_IWUSR | S_IRUGO);
> >> +module_param_named(proc_no_lock, binder_debug_no_lock, int, S_IWUSR | S_IRUGO);
> > Instead of doing this, it would be better to change the line before
> > and declare binder_debug_no_lock as a bool.
> >
> 
> Actually, I did change the type for binder_debug_no_lock as a bool until
> I noticed binder_debug_no_lock is to be assigned value to int variables
> in the following context. I think this change may be helpful to keep
> consistence with the following context and reduce confusion from a view
> to read code.
> 

The code isn't confusing...  But anyway, the change affects how the
option is presented to the user, and it should be bool.

> > Use the ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl to find where to resend this
> 
> Is it a common tool for community, how could I get it?
> 

It's inside the kernel source tree.

regards,
dan carpenter

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-02-25 14:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-24 11:52 [PATCH] Staging:android: Silence some compiler warnings Zhengwang Ruan
2012-02-24 12:46 ` Dan Carpenter
2012-02-25  4:03 ` Zhengwang Ruan
2012-02-25  7:32 ` Julia Lawall
2012-02-25 14:33 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]

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