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From: Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Prajakta Gudadhe <pgudadhe@nvidia.com>,
	jeff@garzik.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Generic booleans in -mm (was: Re: [PATCH] Sgpio support in sata_nv)
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 00:54:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44EB8B2A.8030603@student.ltu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060821224457.65de5111.akpm@osdl.org>

Andrew Morton wrote:

>On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 18:17:06 -0700
>Prajakta Gudadhe <pgudadhe@nvidia.com> wrote:
>  
>
[snip]

>>...
>>
>>+
>>+static bool nv_sgpio_update_led(struct nv_sgpio_led *led, bool *on_off)
>>    
>>
>
>Please remove the new private implementation of `bool' and just use `int'. 
>There's ongoing discussion about how to do a kernel-wide implementation of
>bool, and adding new driver-private ones now just complicates that.
>  
>
Well, the discussion seem to have quiet down (so time to start it up 
again ;) ). But would you take a patch for a generic implementation of 
bool/false/true? I sent one 29th of July with no complaints or 
suggestions. I am happy to send it again.

About this patch, isn't better to leave the 'bool'-type if there is a 
will to make a common boolean? Easier to find and convert a local 
definition of bool then finding functions who are boolean, but decleard 
as some kind of integer.

Just a thought
/Richard Knutsson


  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-22 22:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-22  1:17 [PATCH] Sgpio support in sata_nv Prajakta Gudadhe
2006-08-22  5:44 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-22 22:54   ` Richard Knutsson [this message]
2006-08-22 23:17     ` Generic booleans in -mm (was: Re: [PATCH] Sgpio support in sata_nv) Andrew Morton
2006-08-23 11:14       ` [PATCH 2.6.18-rc4-mm2] Generic boolean (was: Re: Generic booleans in -mm) Richard Knutsson
2006-08-23 12:06         ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-24  4:06           ` [PATCH 2.6.18-rc4-mm2] Generic boolean Richard Knutsson

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