Re: [PATCH 0/5] drivers/mtd: make several functions return bool

Yaowei Bai
2016-03-25T08:41:38Z

On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 08:57:59AM +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> Am 25.03.2016 um 07:31 schrieb Yaowei Bai:
> > On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 10:54:51AM +0800, Dongsheng Yang wrote:
> >> ccing: Brian and Richard
> >>
> >> Hi Yao,
> >> Is that really necessary? I am not sure how much benefit we can
> >> achieve from this change.
> >> Could you explain more?
> >
> > Yes, according to these functions' name, a boolean return value is more
> > suitable and matchable.
> >
> > Also personally think this change maybe benfit function's return value
> > storage in the stack when called on certain architectures.
>
> On which archs? And what exactly is the benefit?
> I agree that bool might be a better choice for new functions
> but here you're touching existing and working(!) code.
> The only outcome is git history pollution that makes git blame
> less efficient.

Working code doesn't mean perfect code. :-)

I still think this's a helpful change even though it's small, but
you make the decision to merge or drop it.

>
> Thanks,
> //richard
>