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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Cc: "Eric Dumazet" <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	"David Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Michał Mirosław" <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: tcp_sendmsg() wrong access to sk_route_caps
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 09:32:57 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1322501577.2024.34.camel@Joe-Laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1322500843.26733.2.camel@bwh-desktop>

On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 17:20 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 08:54 -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > Perhaps a checkpatch warning should be issued
> > when the implicit cast [to bool] is used.
> checkpatch can't do type-checking; maybe you mean sparse.

I think I could get checkpatch to track the bool
type implicit casts for the not struct member
uses of bool.

ie:
	bool foo;
	[...]
	foo = expr;
but not:
	struct foo {
		bool bar;
	};
	[...]
	foo.bar = expr;

It's pretty trivial to do it mostly correctly
with spatch/cocci though.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-28 17:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-28 10:27 [PATCH net-next] tcp: tcp_sendmsg() wrong access to sk_route_caps Eric Dumazet
2011-11-28 10:46 ` Joe Perches
2011-11-28 16:04   ` Eric Dumazet
2011-11-28 16:53     ` David Laight
2011-11-28 16:54     ` Joe Perches
2011-11-28 17:20       ` Ben Hutchings
2011-11-28 17:32         ` Joe Perches [this message]
2011-11-28 23:58 ` David Miller

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