netdev - Re: [PATCH] b43: Fix use true/false for bool type

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Date:   Tue, 29 Oct 2019 09:24:27 +0100
From:   Simon Horman <simon.horman@...ronome.com>
To:     Saurav Girepunje <saurav.girepunje@...il.com>
Cc:     kvalo@...eaurora.org, davem@...emloft.net, swinslow@...il.com,
        will@...nel.org, opensource@...ayne.com, baijiaju1990@...il.com,
        tglx@...utronix.de, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
        b43-dev@...ts.infradead.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, saurav.girepunje@...mail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] b43: Fix use true/false for bool type

Hi Saurav,

thanks for your patch.

On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 12:32:04AM +0530, Saurav Girepunje wrote:
> use true/false on bool type variable assignment.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Saurav Girepunje <saurav.girepunje@...il.com>

This does not seem to cover the case in dma.c,
which seems to want fixing for the sake of consistency.

Also, I wonder why bools rather than a bitmask was chosen
for this field, it seems rather space intensive in its current form.

> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/main.c | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/main.c
> index b85603e91c7a..39da1a4c30ac 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/main.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/main.c
> @@ -3600,7 +3600,7 @@ static void b43_tx_work(struct work_struct *work)
>  			else
>  				err = b43_dma_tx(dev, skb);
>  			if (err == -ENOSPC) {
> -				wl->tx_queue_stopped[queue_num] = 1;
> +				wl->tx_queue_stopped[queue_num] = true;
>  				ieee80211_stop_queue(wl->hw, queue_num);
>  				skb_queue_head(&wl->tx_queue[queue_num], skb);
>  				break;
> @@ -3611,7 +3611,7 @@ static void b43_tx_work(struct work_struct *work)
>  		}
>  
>  		if (!err)
> -			wl->tx_queue_stopped[queue_num] = 0;
> +			wl->tx_queue_stopped[queue_num] = false;
>  	}
>  
>  #if B43_DEBUG
> @@ -5603,7 +5603,7 @@ static struct b43_wl *b43_wireless_init(struct b43_bus_dev *dev)
>  	/* Initialize queues and flags. */
>  	for (queue_num = 0; queue_num < B43_QOS_QUEUE_NUM; queue_num++) {
>  		skb_queue_head_init(&wl->tx_queue[queue_num]);
> -		wl->tx_queue_stopped[queue_num] = 0;
> +		wl->tx_queue_stopped[queue_num] = false;
>  	}
>  
>  	snprintf(chip_name, ARRAY_SIZE(chip_name),
> -- 
> 2.20.1
>