Re: [lustre-devel] [PATCH 21/40] staging: lustre: improve LNet clean up code and API

[Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>]

On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 04:20:59PM +0300, Alexander Zarochentsev wrote:
> >  BAD:   if (rc != 0)
> > GOOD:   if (rc)
> 
> The latest suggestion is not correct,
> from http://wiki.lustre.org/Lustre_Coding_Guidelines :
> Conditional boolean (if (expr)), scalar (if (val != 0)) and pointer
> (if (ptr != NULL)) expressions should be written consistently.

Kernel style trumps Lustre style.  Double negative don't not hurt
readability.  != NULL is a checkpatch.pl warning.  Also comparisons like
== false or == true are checkpatch warnings.

I can think of two places where comparing with zero is appropriate and
those are:

1)  If you are talking about the numer zero.

	if (x == 0 || x == 2)

2) strcmp() and other *cmp() functions.

	if (strcmp(foo, bar) == 0)   /* foo and bar are the same */
	if (strcmp(foo, bar) < 0)    /* foo less than bar */
	if (strcmp(foo, bar) != 0)   /* foo not the same as bar */

For "if (rc) {" a zero return doesn't mean zero, it means success so
comparing against zero is bad style.

regards,
dan carpenter