Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc5 4/4] sys_futex64 : allows 64bit futexes

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu Jan 18 2007 - 17:35:09 EST


On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 08:45:56AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> include/asm-i386/futex.h:
>
> switch (cmp) {
> case FUTEX_OP_CMP_EQ: ret = (oldval == cmparg); break;
> case FUTEX_OP_CMP_NE: ret = (oldval != cmparg); break;
> case FUTEX_OP_CMP_LT: ret = (oldval < cmparg); break;
> case FUTEX_OP_CMP_GE: ret = (oldval >= cmparg); break;
> case FUTEX_OP_CMP_LE: ret = (oldval <= cmparg); break;
> case FUTEX_OP_CMP_GT: ret = (oldval > cmparg); break;
> default: ret = -ENOSYS;
> }
>
> Pierre correctly matched the existing style.

Old code doing things wrong is no excuse for new code doing the same
mistake. Much better send a patch to fix up the previous unreadable
mess aswell. Then again some indentation fixups won't help that much
to make futrsx not the totally unreadable spaghetti code it's now ;-)
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