linux-kernel - Re: Conversion to generic boolean

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Message-ID: <9a8748490608280245n3228aaf0t99a50ad6f879e7e0@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:45:21 +0200
From:	"Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@...il.com>
To:	"Christoph Hellwig" <hch@...radead.org>,
	"Richard Knutsson" <ricknu-0@...dent.ltu.se>,
	James.Bottomley@...eleye.com, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Conversion to generic boolean

On 28/08/06, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 05:24:42AM +0200, Richard Knutsson wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > Just would like to ask if you want patches for:
>
> Total NACK to any of this boolean ididocy.  I very much hope you didn't
> get the impression you actually have a chance to get this merged.
>
> >
> > * (Most importent, may introduce bugs if left alone)
> > Fixing boolean checking, ex:
> > if (bool == FALSE)
> > to
> > if (!bool)
>
> this one of course makes sense, but please do it without introducing
> any boolean type.  Getting rid of all the TRUE/FALSE defines and converting
> all scsi drivers to classic C integer as boolean semantics would be
> very welcome janitorial work.
>
If you'll take such patches I'd be willing to clean up a few drivers..
 Any specific ones you'd like me to start with?

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