linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] locktorture: Fix assignment of boolean variables

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Message-ID: <20181203083500.GH11614@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:   Mon, 3 Dec 2018 09:35:00 +0100
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     Wen Yang <wen.yang99@....com.cn>,
        Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>,
        Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, zhong.weidong@....com.cn,
        mingo@...hat.com, will.deacon@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] locktorture: Fix assignment of boolean variables

On Sat, Dec 01, 2018 at 12:37:01PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 01, 2018 at 04:31:49PM +0800, Wen Yang wrote:
> > Fix the following warnings reported by coccinelle:
> > 
> > kernel/locking/locktorture.c:703:6-10: WARNING: Assignment of bool to 0/1
> > kernel/locking/locktorture.c:918:2-20: WARNING: Assignment of bool to 0/1
> > kernel/locking/locktorture.c:949:3-20: WARNING: Assignment of bool to 0/1
> > kernel/locking/locktorture.c:682:2-19: WARNING: Assignment of bool to 0/1
> > kernel/locking/locktorture.c:688:2-19: WARNING: Assignment of bool to 0/1
> > kernel/locking/locktorture.c:648:2-20: WARNING: Assignment of bool to 0/1
> > kernel/locking/locktorture.c:654:2-20: WARNING: Assignment of bool to 0/1
> > 
> > This patch also makes the code more readable.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Wen Yang <wen.yang99@....com.cn>
> > CC: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>
> > CC: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.ibm.com>
> > CC: Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>
> > CC: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
> 
> Adding the current maintainers on CC.

So I strongly disagree with this. Anybody that has trouble with 0/1 vs
false/true needs to stay the heck away from C.

I would suggest we delete that stupid coccinelle scripts that generates
these pointless warns.