linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] kernel-doc: rename the kernel-doc directive 'functions' to 'identifiers'

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Message-ID: <20191029020027.516a6bce@lwn.net>
Date:   Tue, 29 Oct 2019 02:00:27 -0600
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Changbin Du <changbin.du@...il.com>
Cc:     Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>,
        linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, linux-fpga@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] kernel-doc: rename the kernel-doc directive
 'functions' to 'identifiers'

On Tue, 29 Oct 2019 08:31:22 +0800
Changbin Du <changbin.du@...il.com> wrote:

> Here python is different from C. Both empty string and None are False in python.
> Note such condition is common in python.

Treating both as a False value is reasonably common.  Treating them
elsewhere in the same code block as separate values is less
so; that's the part I would prefer to avoid.

Thanks,

jon