linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] staging: ccree: fix boolreturn.cocci warning

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Date:   Thu, 19 Oct 2017 11:52:29 +0530
From:   Suniel Mahesh <sunil.m@...hveda.org>
To:     "Tobin C. Harding" <me@...in.cc>
Cc:     gilad@...yossef.com, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
        driverdev-devel@...uxdriverproject.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, karthik@...hveda.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] staging: ccree: fix boolreturn.cocci warning

On Thursday 19 October 2017 02:24 AM, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> Hi Suniel,
> 
> Well done with you continued versions. I am being particularly nit picky here but since we are
> striving for perfection I'm sure will humour me. If English is not your first language please
> forgive me for picking you up on language subtleties.

Hi Tobin,

First of all, I thank you very much for the reviews, to be honest I enjoyed the process. Yes all of 
us, here we are striving for perfection. I am always open to take suggestions from the community to 
improve things which I am working on and there by improving myself. Yeah English is not my first
language, but all my education was done in English, no issues there.

> 
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 12:11:55PM +0530, sunil.m@...hveda.org wrote:
>> From: Suniel Mahesh <sunil.m@...hveda.org>
>>
>> This fixes the following coccinelle warning:
>> WARNING: return of 0/1 in function 'ssi_is_hw_key' with return type bool.
> 
> This should be a description of the problem, so saying _why_ there is a problem or _what_ is wrong
> with the code currently that warrants a patch. Sometimes while describing the problem you may
> include descriptions of the solution especially it is not immediately obvious why your proposed
> solution fixes the issue being explained. As an extra we shouldn't ever say 'This patch ...' or
> 'This does xyz'.
> 
>> return "false" instead of 0.
> 
> Perfect, this is in imperative mood. Spot on!
> 
>> Signed-off-by: Suniel Mahesh <sunil.m@...hveda.org>
>> ---
>> Changes for v3:
>> - Changed the commit log even more to give an accurate
>>   description of the changeset as suggested by Toby C.Harding.
> 
> My name is Tobin :)

how did I blind myself, my bad, will be careful and avoid such mistakes moving forward.

> 
>> ---
>> Changes for v2:
>> - Changed the commit log to give a more accurate description
>>   of the changeset as suggested by Toby C.Harding.
>> ---
>> Note:
>> - Patch was built(ARCH=arm) on latest linux-next.
>> - No build issues reported, however it was not
>>   tested on real hardware.
>> - Please discard this changeset, if this is not
>>   helping the code look better.
>> ---
>>  drivers/staging/ccree/ssi_cipher.h | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/ccree/ssi_cipher.h b/drivers/staging/ccree/ssi_cipher.h
>> index c9a83df..f499962 100644
>> --- a/drivers/staging/ccree/ssi_cipher.h
>> +++ b/drivers/staging/ccree/ssi_cipher.h
>> @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ struct arm_hw_key_info {
>>  
>>  static inline bool ssi_is_hw_key(struct crypto_tfm *tfm)
>>  {
>> -	return 0;
>> +	return false;
>>  }
>>  
>>  #endif /* CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_HW_KEY */
>> -- 
>> 1.9.1
>>
> 
> For what it's worth, Reviewed-by: Tobin C. Harding <me@...in.cc>
> 
> As stated I am being particularly 'nit picky', the commit log is _probably_ good enough to be
> merged, I am not a maintainer though so it's not really anything to do with me. I do know however
> that sometimes patches go to the bottom of Greg's list if they have comments/suggestions. I mention
> this only so you learn more about the process and to help you with successfully getting you patches
> merged. Keep up the work!

Thanks once again Tobin, I love feedback and that's how we can make this world a better workplace.

Suniel

> 
> Good luck,
> Tobin.
>