linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/8] make some functions return bool

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1712121946120.83765@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
Date:   Tue, 12 Dec 2017 19:47:09 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
cc:     baiyaowei@...s.chinamobile.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] make some functions return bool

On Tue, 12 Dec 2017, Randy Dunlap wrote:

> Sure, but I didn't keep the patch emails.
> 
> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
> 

You may have noticed changing functions like is_file_lru() to bool when it 
is used to index into an array or as part of an arithmetic operation for 
ZVC stats.  I'm not sure why you would ack such code.