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

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Date:	Mon, 12 Feb 2007 12:27:38 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...elEye.com>
Cc:	ricknu-0@...dent.ltu.se, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/scsi/aic7xxx_old: Convert to generic
 boolean-values

> On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 12:27:42 -0600 James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...elEye.com> wrote:
> 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.

Given that we now have a standard kernel-wide, c99-friendly way of
expressing true and false, I'd suggest that this decision can be revisited.

Because a "true" is significantly more meaningful (and hence readable)
thing than a bare "1".
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