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

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Date:	Tue, 10 Feb 2015 16:55:17 +0100
From:	Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@...r.at>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@...dl.org>, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata: fixup return type of
	wait_for_completion_timeout

On Tue, 10 Feb 2015, Tejun Heo wrote:

> 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.
>
The == 0 seemed better to me than ! here because it would read

  if (not irq_timeout) {

while it actually did time out - but this could be resolved by renaming
irq_timeout to time_left (as was suggested by Sergei Shtylyov
<sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com> for a similar patch) and then it 
would read:

   if (time_left == 0) {

which would nicely describe the timeout state.

if that addresses your concerns then I'll fix it up and repost.

thx!
hofrat
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