linux-kernel - Re: [E1000-devel] [PATCH] drivers/net: convert & to &&

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Message-ID: <47D18B89.4000706@intel.com>
Date:	Fri, 07 Mar 2008 10:38:01 -0800
From:	"Kok, Auke" <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
CC:	e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	xfs-masters <xfs-masters@....sgi.com>,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] [PATCH] drivers/net: convert & to &&

Joe Perches wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 10:07 -0800, Kok, Auke wrote:
>> (which, BTW also could use the uint32_t -> u32 (etc) changes... while you're at it)
> 
> I think this does what you want:
> 
> for size in "8" "16" "32" "64" ; do \
> sed -r -i -e 's/\bu_{0,1}int'$size'_t\b/u'$size'/g' \
> $(grep -rPlw --include=*.[ch] 'u_{0,1}int'$size'_t' drivers/net/e1000 drivers/net/ixgb); done
> 
> But why?  boolean_t is used by 3 subsystems with local typedefs.
> These others are much more frequently used by kernel source.

afaik they're really meant for userspace related code and don't belong in our
driver from that perspective.

> $ grep -rPlw --include=*.[ch] "u{0,1}_{0,1}int(8|16|32|64)_t" * | wc -l
> 876

yes, a lot of that *is* userspace related code.

do the same search in drivers/net/ .... you'll see the only drivers using this for
everything is our old drivers...

Auke
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