Re: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH] f2fs: Fix bool initialization/comparison

From: Joe Perches
Date: Sat Oct 07 2017 - 15:31:04 EST


On Sat, 2017-10-07 at 23:33 +0900, Ju Hyung Park wrote:
> Isn't this bogus?
>
> "bool" type in Linux kernel is a typedef to "_Bool"
> and true/false is defined as 1 and 0 by enum at include/linux/stddef.h.

Bogus? Well, not really. It's just a neatening and it's
identical object code.

The idea is that true/false is more intelligible than 1/0
for a human reader.

> On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 11:02 PM, Thomas Meyer <thomas@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Bool initializations should use true and false. Bool tests don't need
> > comparisons.
[]
> > diff -u -p a/fs/f2fs/data.c b/fs/f2fs/data.c
[]
> > @@ -419,7 +419,7 @@ next:
> > bio_page = fio->encrypted_page ? fio->encrypted_page : fio->page;
> >
> > /* set submitted = 1 as a return value */
> > - fio->submitted = 1;
> > + fio->submitted = true;
> >
> > inc_page_count(sbi, WB_DATA_TYPE(bio_page));
> >

And it's probably better to change the comment too.