linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] libata: fixup return type of wait_for_completion

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Date:	Tue, 10 Feb 2015 09:53:41 -0500
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@...dl.org>
Cc:	linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata: fixup return type of wait_for_completion_timeout

On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 03:39:36AM -0500, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:
> -	if (!rc) {
> +	if (irq_timeout == 0) {

Why == 0 tho?  This always bothers me.  To match this style, we'd use
!= 0 to test the other direction.  In what way is "if (ret != 0)"
better than "if (ret)"?  We're negating the two tests needlessly.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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