linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1] bitmap: Drop unnecessary 0 check for u32 array operations

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Date:   Thu, 14 Jun 2018 15:03:00 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To:     Yury Norov <ynorov@...iumnetworks.com>
Cc:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] bitmap: Drop unnecessary 0 check for u32 array operations

On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 5:47 PM, Yury Norov <ynorov@...iumnetworks.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 04:19:14PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>> The nbits == 0 is safe to be supplied to the function body, so,
>> remove unnecessary checks in bitmap_to_arr32() and bitmap_from_arr32().

>> +void bitmap_from_arr32(unsigned long *bitmap, const u32 *buf, unsigned int nbits)
>
> This line is 81 characters length, and it will trigger checkpatch warning.
> (But I'm OK with it.)

I really don't care about ) at the end potentially not visible on the
screen (who is using nice old hardware terminals? :-) ).

> Acked-by: Yury Norov <ynorov@...iumnetworks.com>

Thanks.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko