linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] linux/string.h: Introduce streq macro.

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Date:	Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:49:18 +0200
From:	Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>
To:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Thiago Farina <tfransosi@...il.com>,
	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] linux/string.h: Introduce streq macro.

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven
<geert@...ux-m68k.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:29, Miguel Ojeda
> <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 9:58 PM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 16:47 -0300, Thiago Farina wrote:
>>>
>>>> > $ grep -rP --include=*.[ch] "\bstrcmp.*==\s*0\b" * | wc -l
>>>> > 1143
>>>> > $ grep -rP --include=*.[ch] "\!\s*strcmp\s*\(" *  | wc -l
>>>> > 1663
>>>> >
>>>> > Can you count how many misuses of strcmp have been
>>>> > corrected?
>>>>
>>>> > Do you plan to convert the existing 2800?
>>>>
>>>> I'd work on this without any problem.
>>>
>>> Nothing a perl script can't do either.
>>
>> If you are really going to do that, please use a coccinelle's semantic
>> patch (which is designed precisely for that purpose) and document it
>> so that it can be included in the standard set of semantic patches
>> applied to the kernel regularly, i.e. something like:
>
> First, I agree (mildly) with the opponents: strcmp() is standard C99.
> Second, as the goal is to avoid bugs, this conversion should not be blindly
> done by a script and be done with it, but reviewed by a human.

Hi, on the contrary: I don't agree with the change unless a policy for
all this kind of changes (i.e. changes which diverge from C99) is
written and discussed first for all the kernel (and not only in
strcmp's regard). I was just warning about the potential size of the
patch (like Ted Ts'o did) and the dangers of doing it with a quickly
hacked perl script. Using a coccinelle semantic patch would much
better suited for this and less error prone if this kind of changes
are ultimately merged.

Regards,
Miguel Ojeda

>
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
>                         Geert
>
> --
> Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@...ux-m68k.org
>
> In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
> when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
>                                 -- Linus Torvalds
>
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