linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] saa7146: fix sparse warnings

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Date:	Sun, 02 Mar 2008 21:46:19 +0300
From:	Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@...il.com>
To:	Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com>
CC:	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] saa7146: fix sparse warnings

Harvey Harrison пишет:
> On Sun, 2008-03-02 at 20:34 +0300, Dmitri Vorobiev wrote:
>> Harvey Harrison пишет:
>>>  
>>> -	if( 0 != (dev->ext)) {
>>> +	if( NULL != (dev->ext)) {
>> At the risk of looking an idiot, I'm taking a liberty to ask what is
>> the point in explicit comparison to zero in conditional operators? Is
>> it not a fundamental C idiom to write
> 
> <snip>
> 
> Yes, that's how I would have written it, but I tried to keep with the
> prevailing style in that file.  I suppose I could see an argument for
> consistency if you had a long series of if() statements to keep a
> similar style.

To me it looks that the original style in this file can be sacrificed
in favor of

1) satisfying the coding style rules of the kernel;
2) keeping with informal, but commonly known idioms of C language.

So I thought that while you're at it, you could also comb through
this file and make the checkpatch.pl script happy with it.

But this is just my very personal opinion :)

Dmitri

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