linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] checkpatch: Emit a warning when decimal values are used

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Date:	Thu, 1 Nov 2012 10:22:05 +0100
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>,
	Adil Mujeeb <mujeeb.adil@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] checkpatch: Emit a warning when decimal values are
 used

Hi!

> > > Linux kernel doesn't like decimals, say so.
> > 
> > ?!
> > 
> > Linux surely supports decimal constants, like "100". Did you mean
> > "octal"?
> > 
> > If you wanted to add warning for something... I never want to see
> > 
> > #define CRAPPY_EMBEDDED_REGISTER ((0x1) << (0))
> > 
> > again....
> 
> Joe means floating point.  I suggest that the patchset be reworked,
> using s/decimal/float/g.
> 
> 
> The kernel does have floating point constants, in various graphics
> drivers, iirc.  They are used in places where the floatiness gets
> handled at complation time.  Along the lines of:
> 
> 	int foo = 1.1 * 2.2;
....
> A much better solution would be to arrange for the kernel to fail to
> compile (or to fail to link) if floats are used.  That way, people
> could continue to use floats within their compile-time scalar
> expressions without getting harrassed by checkpatch.  But I don't know
> how to arrange this.

I know it is normally unwanted, but we do have kernel_fpu_begin(). I
thought it enables exactly... floating point math in kernel?
									Pavel
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