From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Richard Knutsson Subject: Re: [Patch] net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c: Some small improvements Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:37:46 +0100 Message-ID: <4758093A.7010608@student.ltu.se> References: <20071206110123.GB2469@hacking> <20071206.031434.179419183.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, akpm@osdl.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from gepetto.dc.ltu.se ([130.240.42.40]:43239 "EHLO gepetto.dc.ltu.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750892AbXLFOfe (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Dec 2007 09:35:34 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20071206.031434.179419183.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: David Miller wrote: > From: WANG Cong > Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 19:01:23 +0800 > > >> This patch contains the following changes. >> >> - Use 'bool' instead of 'int' for booleans. >> - Use 'size_t' instead of 'int' for 'sizeof' return value. >> - Some style fixes. >> >> Cc: Herbert Xu >> Cc: David Miller >> Signed-off-by: WANG Cong >> > > Normally I would let a patch like this sit in my mailbox > for a week and then delete it. > That is evil! ;) > But this time I'll just let you know up front that I > don't see much value in this patch. It is not a clear > improvement to replace int's with bool's in my mind and > the other changes are just whitespace changes. > Is it not an improvement to distinct booleans from actual values? Do you use integers for ASCII characters too? It can also avoid some potential bugs like the 'if (i == TRUE)'... What is wrong with 'size_t' (since it is unsigned, compared to (some) 'int')? /Richard Knutsson