netdev - Re: [PATCH] IPv6: simplify & condense a few declarations & statements

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Date:	Wed, 17 Apr 2013 13:28:18 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	n1ght.4nd.d4y@...il.com
Cc:	kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, jmorris@...ei.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org,
	kaber@...sh.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPv6: simplify & condense a few declarations &
 statements

From: Nathaniel Yazdani <n1ght.4nd.d4y@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 10:20:22 -0700

> This patch combines several statements/declarations into more concise forms and removes a 
> couple of unnecessary local variables within a few functions, mostly inline.

Please make commit messages with 80 column long lines maximum.

> @@ -111,10 +111,7 @@ static inline void fib6_walker_unlink(struct fib6_walker_t *w)
>  }
>  static __inline__ u32 fib6_new_sernum(void)
>  {
> -	u32 n = ++rt_sernum;
> -	if ((__s32)n <= 0)
> -		rt_sernum = n = 1;
> -	return n;
> +	return (__s32)++rt_sernum <= 0 ? rt_sernum = 1 : rt_sernum;

Like your commit message, I find this unreadable, and definitely not
an improvement.

I'm not applying this even with the long lines in the commit message
fixes, sorry.

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