Re: [Cocci] Re: [PATCH] scripts/coccinelle/misc/boolinit.cocci:semantic patch for bool issues

[Artem Bityutskiy]

On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 20:55 +0200, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 10:51 -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > 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@xxxxxxx>
> > > > 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.
> 
> OK, so this is about taste, I thought there is a more serious reason.

But let me be clear - I am all for having this spatch in the kernel tree
- it is good for code hygiene.

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy

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