linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drivers/scsi/aic7xxx_old: Convert to generic boolean-values

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Message-ID: <45CE2C8C.80306@student.ltu.se>
Date:	Sat, 10 Feb 2007 21:35:24 +0100
From:	Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@...dent.ltu.se>
To:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...elEye.com>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/scsi/aic7xxx_old: Convert to generic	boolean-values

James Bottomley wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 18:46 +0100, Richard Knutsson wrote:
>   
>> Convert:
>> FALSE -> false
>> TRUE  -> true
>>     
>
> Actually, downcasing true and false in this driver is pretty much a
> retrograde step.  The reason for their being uppercased is that they
> represent constants (and uppercase is the traditional defined constant
> specifier).
>   
I would argue that 'false' and 'true' are values and not constants, but 
further more C99 is defining them in lowercase (stdbool.h).
> When discussion about TRUE and FALSE came up a long time a go in the
> context of the mid layer we agreed to strip the defined constants out of
> that code and just go with 1 and 0 inline ... because the code was
> pretty much being rewritten.  We also decided to encourage but not force
> the driver writers simply to use 1 and 0 as well ... a lot of people are
> deeply wedded to the TRUE and FALSE defines, it turned out.
>   
As I have expressed before, I don't understand why people seem to 
dislike 'false'/'true' but anyway, since you seem to approve booleans, 
would it be possible to convert the obvious variables/functions into 
boolean-type?

Richard Knutsson

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