linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/12] staging: lustre: fid: Use !x to check for kzalloc failure

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Message-ID: <1435097483.2504.10.camel@perches.com>
Date:	Tue, 23 Jun 2015 15:11:23 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:	"Dilger, Andreas" <andreas.dilger@...el.com>,
	Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>,
	"Drokin, Oleg" <oleg.drokin@...el.com>,
	"devel@...verdev.osuosl.org" <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org" <kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"lustre-devel@...ts.lustre.org" <lustre-devel@...ts.lustre.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/12] staging: lustre: fid: Use !x to check for kzalloc
 failure

On Tue, 2015-06-23 at 12:23 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> people decided that
> Yoda code was a good idea based on their gut instead of using statistics
> and measurements and science.

I think that style exists because compilers
disallow CONST = val assignment typos.


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