linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] compat/compat-drivers/linux-next: fb skip_vt

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1303290720350.2023@localhost6.localdomain6>
Date:	Fri, 29 Mar 2013 07:21:07 +0100 (CET)
From:	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
To:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...not-panic.com>
cc:	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	florianschandinat <FlorianSchandinat@....de>,
	linux-fbdev <linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
	"backports@...r.kernel.org" <backports@...r.kernel.org>,
	cocci@...teme.lip6.fr,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"rodrigo.vivi" <rodrigo.vivi@...il.com>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>,
	"rafael.j.wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] compat/compat-drivers/linux-next: fb skip_vt_switch

> > I looked in today's linux-next, and there seems to be only one
> > initialization of this field, to true, and one test of this field.  So
> > perhaps the case for setting the field to false just isn't needed.
> 
> Oh sorry now I get what you mean! I thought about this -- and yes I
> decided to not add a bool false setting for the structure field given
> that the assumption is this would not be something dynamic, and data
> structure would be kzalloc()'d so by default they are 0.

What do you do about the test, though?

julia
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