Re: [Patch] net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c: Some small improvements

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Thu Dec 06 2007 - 12:53:43 EST


On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 03:37:46PM +0100, Richard Knutsson wrote:
>
> Is it not an improvement to distinct booleans from actual values? Do you
> use integers for ASCII characters too? It can also avoid some potential
> bugs like the 'if (i == TRUE)'...
> What is wrong with 'size_t' (since it is unsigned, compared to (some)
> 'int')?

I agree with Dave. There are so many useful things that we can do
(and need to do) in IPsec that bool/size_t conversions just add
churn without adding much value.

Thanks,
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