linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Introduce simple TRUE and FALSE boolean macros.

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Date:	Mon, 22 Jan 2007 17:52:47 +0100 (MET)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
To:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>
cc:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
	Nicholas Miell <nmiell@...cast.net>,
	Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, linville@...driver.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce simple TRUE and FALSE boolean macros.


On Jan 22 2007 10:41, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
>as opposed to the 100+ *other* definitions currently cluttering up the
>tree, which this patch would allow to be deleted *immediately*.
>
>forget it.  i can see this argument is going nowhere and that, six
>months from now, some poor sucker is going to post, asking, "hey, you
>know all these TRUE/FALSE things?  wouldn't it be great if we could,
>you know, clean those up?  whaddya say?"
>
>and groundhog day will begin all over again ...

I don't get it why it's so hard to do (b) over (a)

  (a) remove all TRUE/FALSE and add TRUE/FALSE to linux/types.h
      as per http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/21/19

  (b) see below

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@....de>

Index: linux-2.6.20-rc5/drivers/net/wireless/strip.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.20-rc5.orig/drivers/net/wireless/strip.c
+++ linux-2.6.20-rc5/drivers/net/wireless/strip.c
@@ -177,8 +177,6 @@ typedef struct {
 	MetricomNode node[NODE_TABLE_SIZE];
 } MetricomNodeTable;
 
-enum { FALSE = 0, TRUE = 1 };
-
 /*
  * Holds the radio's firmware version.
  */
@@ -1209,7 +1207,7 @@ static void ResetRadio(struct strip *str
 	if (!strip_info->manual_dev_addr)
 		*(MetricomAddress *) strip_info->dev->dev_addr =
 		    zero_address;
-	strip_info->working = FALSE;
+	strip_info->working = false;
 	strip_info->firmware_level = NoStructure;
 	strip_info->next_command = CompatibilityCommand;
 	strip_info->watchdog_doprobe = jiffies + 10 * HZ;
@@ -1845,7 +1843,7 @@ static void RecvErr_Message(struct strip
 		}
 #endif
 		if (!strip_info->working) {
-			strip_info->working = TRUE;
+			strip_info->working = true;
 			printk(KERN_INFO "%s: Radio now in starmode\n",
 			       strip_info->dev->name);
 			/*
@@ -2455,7 +2453,7 @@ static int strip_open_low(struct net_dev
 	strip_info->tx_left = 0;
 
 	strip_info->discard = 0;
-	strip_info->working = FALSE;
+	strip_info->working = false;
 	strip_info->firmware_level = NoStructure;
 	strip_info->next_command = CompatibilityCommand;
 	strip_info->user_baud = get_baud(strip_info->tty);
#<EOF>


	-`J'
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