Re: [PATCH 00/18] use semicolons rather than commas to separate statements

From: Shuah Khan
Date: Fri Oct 02 2020 - 12:47:23 EST


On 9/29/20 7:42 AM, Shuah Khan wrote:
On 9/29/20 7:34 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
On Tue, 2020-09-29 at 14:47 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
On Tue, 29 Sep 2020, Dan Carpenter wrote:
The times where commas are used deliberately to replace curly braces are
just evil.  Either way the code is cleaner with semi-colons.

I also found exaamples like the following to be particularly unforunate:

                                 fprintf(stderr,
                                         "page_nr %lu wrong count %Lu %Lu\n",
                                        page_nr, count,
                                        count_verify[page_nr]), exit(1);

The exit is very hard to see, unless you know to look for it.

I sent that patch last month.
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11734877/


I see what happened. This patch touches lib, cpupower, and selftests.
Guess lost in the limbo of who takes it.

 tools/lib/subcmd/help.c                    |  10 +-
 tools/power/cpupower/utils/cpufreq-set.c   |  14 +-
 tools/testing/selftests/vm/gup_benchmark.c |  18 +-
 tools/testing/selftests/vm/userfaultfd.c   | 296 +++++++++++++--------
 4 files changed, 210 insertions(+), 128 deletions(-)

I can take it through one of my trees.


Rafael, Andrew,

This patch is now applied to
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest.git fixes branch.

This spans pm, kselftest-mm tests and tools/lib and has been
in limbo for a few weeks for that reason.

I decided to take this through kselftest tree to avoid having
Joe split the patches.

thanks,
-- Shuah