Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 Mar 2016 09:58:21 +0100 | From | Boris Brezillon <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/5] drivers/mtd: make several functions return bool |
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On Fri, 25 Mar 2016 08:57:59 +0100 Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> wrote:
> Am 25.03.2016 um 07:31 schrieb Yaowei Bai: > > On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 10:54:51AM +0800, Dongsheng Yang wrote: > >> ccing: Brian and Richard > >> > >> Hi Yao, > >> Is that really necessary? I am not sure how much benefit we can > >> achieve from this change. > >> Could you explain more? > > > > Yes, according to these functions' name, a boolean return value is more > > suitable and matchable. > > > > Also personally think this change maybe benfit function's return value > > storage in the stack when called on certain architectures. > > On which archs? And what exactly is the benefit? > I agree that bool might be a better choice for new functions > but here you're touching existing and working(!) code. > The only outcome is git history pollution that makes git blame > less efficient.
Indeed, you raised a good point. Having useless changes pollute git blame output may be problematic. Not sure I want to apply those patches anymore :-/.
Anyway, Yao, I'm sure you can find other usefull things to contribute.
-- Boris Brezillon, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com
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