Re: [PATCH] drivers/scsi/aic7xxx_old: Convert to generic boolean-values

[Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se>]

James Bottomley wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 18:46 +0100, Richard Knutsson wrote:
>   
>> Convert:
>> FALSE -> false
>> TRUE  -> true
>>     
>
> Actually, downcasing true and false in this driver is pretty much a
> retrograde step.  The reason for their being uppercased is that they
> represent constants (and uppercase is the traditional defined constant
> specifier).
>
> When discussion about TRUE and FALSE came up a long time a go in the
> context of the mid layer we agreed to strip the defined constants out of
> that code and just go with 1 and 0 inline ... because the code was
> pretty much being rewritten.  We also decided to encourage but not force
> the driver writers simply to use 1 and 0 as well ... a lot of people are
> deeply wedded to the TRUE and FALSE defines, it turned out.
>   
Btw, is this just for aic7xxx_old and not aic7xxx? Is it going to be 
replaced? In that case, I will just leave it alone.

Richard Knutsson