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Message-ID: <4816C258.7050203@zytor.com>
Date:	Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:38:16 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	David Newall <davidn@...idnewall.com>
CC:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@...el.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: DS cleanup - dont treat 0 as NULL

David Newall wrote:
> Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
>> -			return 0;
>> +			return NULL;
> 
> Why?  The constant 0 is C's official symbol for a null pointer.

It's still bad style.

	-hpa
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