linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH v3 1/2] lib/kstrtox.c: Add "false"/"true" support to kstrtobool()

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Date:   Tue, 26 Apr 2022 20:40:31 +0000
From:   David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:     'Matthew Wilcox' <willy@...radead.org>,
        Jagdish Gediya <jvgediya@...ux.ibm.com>
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Subject: RE: [PATCH v3 1/2] lib/kstrtox.c: Add "false"/"true" support to
 kstrtobool()

From: Matthew Wilcox
> Sent: 26 April 2022 20:15
 ()
> 
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 11:32:02PM +0530, Jagdish Gediya wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Jagdish Gediya <jvgediya@...ux.ibm.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@...radead.org>
> 
> HEY!  You still have the buggy IFF -> IF change.  FIX IT.
> My R-b was very clearly conditional on you fixing it.
> 
> > - * This routine returns 0 iff the first character is one of 'Yy1Nn0', or
> > + * This routine returns 0 if the first character is one of 'YyTt1NnFf0', or

my 2c

Iff doesn't really go with an 'or' clause.
(With a maths degree I know what it means!)

so it probably reads better as 'if'.

	David

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