linux-kernel - Re: staging: goldfish: Fix minor coding style

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Message-ID: <20141215115147.3d4333e5@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date:	Mon, 15 Dec 2014 11:51:47 +0000
From:	One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Loic Pefferkorn <loic@...cp.eu>
Cc:	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: staging: goldfish: Fix minor coding style

On Sat, 13 Dec 2014 22:20:52 +0100
Loic Pefferkorn <loic@...cp.eu> wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 07:07:05PM +0000, One Thousand Gnomes wrote:
> > 
> > Pointless churn. It makes it less readable if anything, and it removes
> > the type safety as you are now checking against 0 not (void *)0
> > 
> > NAK
> > 
> > Alan
> 
> The type safety is an interesting point I was not aware of.
> 
> Just in case, do you have something for me on your todo list?

Depends what you feel confident tackling. An interesting but
challenging one to look at as a newcomer might be

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87951

because it provides you with an example .iso file you can loopback mount
to see the crash, and the same fixes were done for a similar bug so can
be seen in the git log to work from.

commit 410dd3cf4c9b36f27ed4542ee18b1af5e68645a4

It's predictable, it's repeatable and it can be done crashing a virtual
machine not a real one. That usually makes things eaiser to fix.

For something easier perhaps

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75111

which just needs the configuration help fixing

Alan
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