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From: Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se>
To: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com, xfs@oss.sgi.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.18-rc4-mm3 2/2] fs/xfs: Correcting error-prone boolean-statement
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 03:38:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44F78F0D.2030907@student.ltu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060901111601.R3186664@wobbly.melbourne.sgi.com>

Nathan Scott wrote:

>On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 03:18:31AM +0200, Richard Knutsson wrote:
>  
>
>>Nathan Scott wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>Are you using XFS on your systems?  What is your strategy for getting this
>>>runtime tested going to be?  Or are you delegating that responsibility? :)
>>> 
>>>      
>>>
>>Sorry, can't say that I do. So pretty please... ;)
>>Seriously, I can not find a state when this may fail (if not "if (var == 
>>TRUE)" happend to be correct for 'var' != 0 != 1, but that is just a bug 
>>waiting to happend).
>>But please correct me if I am wrong.
>>    
>>
>
>OK, I'll run with it in my own testing for awhile.
>
Thanks!

>                                                    I was also curious to
>why you didn't remove the other few B_TRUE/B_FALSE occurences?  (and the
>typedef)?
>  
>
Working on it. Should be out tomorrow(or in about 20 hours).
 From the "Re: Conversion to generic boolean"-thread (started on 
06-08-28), there were those who did not seem to like the conversion. But 
since no-one complained about removing "== B_FALSE/B_TRUE", I thought it 
best to remove them first and then take the rest from there.

>cheers.
>
>  
>
cu


      reply	other threads:[~2006-09-01  1:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-31 23:52 [PATCH 2.6.18-rc4-mm3 2/2] fs/xfs: Correcting error-prone boolean-statement Richard Knutsson
2006-09-01  0:07 ` Nathan Scott
2006-09-01  1:18   ` Richard Knutsson
2006-09-01  1:16     ` Nathan Scott
2006-09-01  1:38       ` Richard Knutsson [this message]

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