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Message-Id: <200802110005.28003.caglar@pardus.org.tr>
Date:	Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:05:26 +0200
From:	"S.Çağlar Onur" <caglar@...dus.org.tr>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@...dent.ltu.se>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net,
	hidave.darkstar@...il.com, marcel@...tmann.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Silent compiler warning introduced by acea6852f32b8805e166d885ed7e9f0c7cd10d41 ([BLUETOOTH]: Move children of connection device to NULL before connection down.)

Hi;

10 Şub 2008 Paz tarihinde, Linus Torvalds şunları yazmıştı: 
> 
> On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, S.Çağlar Onur wrote:
> > > >
> > > > -	while (dev = device_find_child(&conn->dev, NULL, __match_tty)) {
> > > > +	while ((dev = device_find_child(&conn->dev, NULL, __match_tty)) != NULL) {
> > > >   
> > > Why do you need '!= NULL'?
> > 
> > I thought its more readable than
> > 
> > while ((dev = device_find_child(&conn->dev, NULL, __match_tty))) {
> 
> Yes indeed. I hate the idiotic "double parenthesis without any meaning". 
> I'd much rather see "((..) != NULL)" than "((..))", because the latter is 
> totally meaningless semantically (although gcc gives it semantics).

But you still not merged this one :), is there any problem exists or would you prefer this comes from with a subsystem tree (which means i'm doing wrong thing with sending these trivial patches to you)?

Cheers
-- 
S.Çağlar Onur <caglar@...dus.org.tr>
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