Re: [PATCH] x86: coding style fixes to arch/x86/math-emu/reg_constant

From: Stefan Richter
Date: Wed Jun 18 2008 - 10:59:21 EST


> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Dmitri Vorobiev
> <dmitri.vorobiev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote:
>>>
>>> -static void fld_const(FPU_REG const *c, int adj, u_char tag)
>>> +static void fld_const(FPU_REG const * c, int adj, u_char tag)
>> ________________________________________^
>>
>> The above does not seem to me like a big improvement in code quality. A
>> false positive from checkpatch.pl?

It should obviously be

static void fld_const(const FPU_REG *c, int adj, u_char tag)

FPU_REG is not an appropriate type name though. Is "typedef struct
fpu__reg FPU_REG;" necessary at all? (Removing it would create some
code churn all over x86/math-emu/ though. Maybe not desirable.)
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Stefan Richter
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