linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Fix usage of true and false as field names in struct taint

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Message-ID: <20161223115935.GF2541@linux.suse>
Date:   Fri, 23 Dec 2016 12:59:35 +0100
From:   Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
To:     Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu>
Cc:     Jessica Yu <jeyu@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix usage of true and false as field names in struct
 taint_flag

On Thu 2016-12-22 13:56:38, Valdis Kletnieks wrote:
> commit 7fd8329ba502ef76dd91db561c7aed696b2c7720
> Author: Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
> Date:   Wed Sep 21 13:47:22 2016 +0200
> 
>     taint/module: Clean up global and module taint flags handling
> 
> Contains this chunk:

Information about a past commits is usually writted using
the following notation:

The commit 7fd8329ba502ef76dd ("taint/module: Clean up global and
module taint flags handling") contains this chunk: 

See also Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst

> --- a/include/linux/kernel.h
  ^^^

This delimits a standard signature and the commit message below
will be ignored by git. You should omit it in the commit message.

> 
> +struct taint_flag {
> +       char true;      /* character printed when tainted */
> +       char false;     /* character printed when not tainted */
> +       bool module;    /* also show as a per-module taint flag */
> +};
> 
> and hilarity ensues when an out-of-tree module has this:
> 
> # ifndef true
> #  define true  (1)
> # endif
> # ifndef false
> #  define false (0)
> # endif
> 
> Change the field names to not shadow something likely to be used
> by third-party modules.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@...edu>

The change itself looks fine. With the above fixes in the commit
message, feel free to use

Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>

Thanks for the fix.

Best Regards,
Petr