Re: [PATCH (rev 2)] cxacru: Cleanup sysfs attribute code

[Simon Arlott]

On 28/04/07 08:50, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 19:41:20 +0100 Simon Arlott <simon@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > This changes the format of unknown status values to be less verbose and 
> > uses an array instead of several different snprintf calls. Since only 
> > enum values are assigned to it, poll_state is changed from int to enum. 
> > Use abs() for dB values instead of two almost identical return lines.
> > ...
> > +	static char *str[] = { "no", "yes" };
> > +	if (unlikely(value >= ARRAY_SIZE(str)))
> > +		return snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%u\n", value);
> > +	return snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%s\n", str[value]);
>
> Should a bool be displayed as "true" or "false"?

The only attribute that uses this is line_startable... I suppose 
it could return true/false - I just happened to use yes/no.

> > +		return snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%u\n", value);
>
> To be completely pedantic: we shouldn't be printing u32's with %u.  Because
> %u assumes that u32 is implemented as unsigned int.  Only it's an opaque
> type and we don't know what actual C type the architecture chose to use.
>
> It happens to work OK on all architectures and I expect it always will, so
> no change is needed, but there you have it.

Ok.

> u64's and %llu _are_ incompatible on some architectures and I get to fix
> that about 1000000 times.

--
Simon Arlott
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