netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: ipv6: ndisc: fix bool assignment in ndisc_send

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Date:   Tue, 23 Jan 2018 10:02:17 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     garsilva@...eddedor.com
Cc:     kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: ipv6: ndisc: fix bool assignment in ndisc_send_na

From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <garsilva@...eddedor.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2018 16:22:13 -0600

> Assign true or false to boolean variables instead of an integer value.
> 
> This issue was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
> 
> Fixes: 1cb3fe513f62 ("ndisc: Break down ndisc_build_skb() and build message directly.")
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <garsilva@...eddedor.com>

Please don't use the word "fix".

'0' is the same as 'false', it's just that the latter is more
consistent type wise.

You aren't fixing any bugs with these changes at all.