On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 14:20:29 -0800 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> For this kind of function return value it actually tends to work very
> well, and in fact often generates slightly better code than "int". So
> I don't _hate_ bool, and we've certainly had a lot more use creep in
> lately, but I also don't really see "bool" as much of an upside.

And in function declarations, it makes it very obvious that the function
is not one of our "return 0 or -ERROR" ones.

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@canb.auug.org.au