linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kernel/debug/kdb: code enhancement for 3 areas.

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Date:	Tue, 28 May 2013 14:07:12 +0800
From:	Chen Gang <gang.chen@...anux.com>
To:	Anton Vorontsov <anton@...msg.org>
CC:	jason.wessel@...driver.com, sasha.levin@...cle.com,
	vincent.stehle@...oste.net, john.blackwood@...r.com,
	kgdb-bugreport@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel/debug/kdb: code enhancement for 3 areas.

On 05/24/2013 09:18 AM, Chen Gang wrote:
> On 05/24/2013 01:28 AM, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
>> > On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 07:25:46PM +0800, Chen Gang wrote:
>>>> >> > Delete waste '{' for 'case' statement.
>>>> >> > 
>>>> >> > For the return variable 'long res' in function kdb_task_state_string(),
>>>> >> > neither it matches the function return type 'unsigned long', nor is
>>>> >> > suitable as a flag variable to make 'or' operation. So use 'unsigned
>>>> >> > long' instead of 'long'.
>>>> >> > 
>>>> >> > If "case 'A'" happen in function kdb_task_state_string(), can return
>>>> >> > ~0UL directly to save the useless looping.
>>>> >> > 
>>>> >> > Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen@...anux.com>
>> > If anything, these should be 3 separate patches...
>> > 

My original 3 fix issues old patches for "kernel/debug" are still
non-reply, then the new minor cleanup patches (if I will provide the 3
patches) will of cause be none-reply, too.

Now, I am not a newbie anymore, so I can/should understand it, at least,
it should not stop me to continue providing patches to another members.

And thank you for your encouraging.

:-)


> OK, I will separate them into 3 patches (originally, I think for trivial
> cleanup patches, better let them in one patch, so can save the reviewers
> and appliers time)
> 
> Excuse me, I have to do something else, so I will finish them within
> this month (2013-05-31)
> 
> 
> Thanks.
> -- Chen Gang Asianux Corporation


-- 
Chen Gang

Asianux Corporation
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