Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: [Cocci] Re: [PATCH] scripts/coccinelle/misc/boolinit.cocci: semantic patch for bool issues | | From | Joe Perches <> | | Date | Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:51:01 -0800 |
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On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 20:44 +0200, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 09:45 -0800, Joe Perches wrote: > > On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 18:11 +0100, Julia Lawall wrote: > > > From: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> > > Thanks Julia. It seems to work well. > I wonder though, why would we want to change if (a == true) with if (a) > etc? Julia did not provide the explanation in the commit message but > referred to you and Rusty in the semantic patch.
Testing booleans against specific values is poor form. booleans should be tested or !tested.
If you are going to submit these patches, I suggest you break them out by 2nd level directory.
patch 1: drivers/foo/... patch 2: drivers/bar/... ... patch n: drivers/baz/...
and cc: trivial@kernel.org
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