From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Rolf Eike Beer <eike@sf-mail.de>
Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dont decrement counters from scsi_kill_request
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 08:05:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060104080518.GO27946@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200601040852.15700@bilbo.math.uni-mannheim.de>
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 08:51:57AM +0100, Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
> Mike Christie wrote:
>
> >+ while (end_that_request_first(req, 0, req->nr_sectors))
> >+ ;
>
> This should be something like
>
> while (...)
> {}
>
> so it is absolutely clear that the empty body is intentional.
Please, do not inflict that ugliness on everyone. FWIW, it's less
idiomatic than normal use of ; and personally I'd parse it as "somebody
had fscked up using editor", not as "wow, they _really_ meant it to be
an empty body".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-04 8:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-04 7:44 [PATCH] dont decrement counters from scsi_kill_request Mike Christie
2006-01-04 7:51 ` Rolf Eike Beer
2006-01-04 8:05 ` Al Viro [this message]
2006-01-04 8:13 ` Rolf Eike Beer
2006-01-04 9:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
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