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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Shailendra Verma <shailendra.capricorn@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts:checkpatch - Do not give error if static bool or global bool variables are assigned to false value.
Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 20:23:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1432697023.2846.140.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+tKcn_1VUQ1cEXYpkPwn3BsSHv3uiY-d2_sfbt_59ZL=jpDfw@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 2015-05-27 at 08:43 +0530, Shailendra Verma wrote:
> Hello Joe,
> 
> Thanks for the clarification. So I will change the error message as
> suggested by you and will send the patch to you.

Hello Shailendra.

My humble apologies to you.

I totally misunderstood what you were writing.
I guess the first sentence threw me for a loop.

It makes sense to avoid emitting a warning message with

	bool foo = false;

cheers, Joe


      parent reply	other threads:[~2015-05-27  3:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-27  1:09 [PATCH] scripts:checkpatch - Do not give error if static bool or global bool variables are assigned to false value Shailendra Verma
2015-05-27  1:57 ` Joe Perches
     [not found]   ` <CA+tKcn_1VUQ1cEXYpkPwn3BsSHv3uiY-d2_sfbt_59ZL=jpDfw@mail.gmail.com>
2015-05-27  3:23     ` Joe Perches [this message]

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