From: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
zhong jiang <zhongjiang@huawei.com>,
davem@davemloft.net
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org, paulus@samba.org, mpe@ellerman.id.au,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] ide: Use NULL to compare with pointer-typed value rather than 0
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2018 19:21:03 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <94bdada0-e0f9-4dd2-ed6d-ad84f7114954@cogentembedded.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14b562e7acdb37158190e14045fe276e9899422e.camel@perches.com>
On 08/18/2018 07:15 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
>>> We should use NULL to compare with pointer-typed value rather than
>>> 0. The issue is detected with the help of Coccinelle.
>>
>> Your description stopped to match the patch in v2.
>> Actually, this X == NULL to !x preference is largely spocific to netdev...
>> Although, IDE maintainer is the same now person. :-)
>>
>>> Signed-off-by: zhong jiang <zhongjiang@huawei.com>
>>> ---
>>> drivers/ide/pmac.c | 2 +-
>>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/ide/pmac.c b/drivers/ide/pmac.c
>>> index c5b902b..ca36a97 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/ide/pmac.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/ide/pmac.c
>>> @@ -1682,7 +1682,7 @@ static int pmac_ide_init_dma(ide_hwif_t *hwif, const struct ide_port_info *d)
>>> /* We won't need pci_dev if we switch to generic consistent
>>> * DMA routines ...
>>> */
>>> - if (dev == NULL || pmif->dma_regs == 0)
>>> + if (!dev || !pmif->dma_regs)
>>> return -ENODEV;
>>> /*
>>> * Allocate space for the DBDMA commands.
>>
>> MBR, Sergei
>
> Perhaps discourage trivial changes to this old subsystem.
>
> checkpatch could bleat something if a patch was submitted for ide
> if the IDE MAINTAINERS entry was marked obsolete.
Note that the IDE fixes are still OK...
> ---
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index e9336962d0f2..3c4992cf5249 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -6933,7 +6933,7 @@ M: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
> L: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
> Q: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linux-ide/list/
> T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/ide.git
> -S: Maintained
> +S: Maintained / Obsolete (prefer LIBATA)
What about "S: Odd Fixes"? Perhaps it better reflects the reality...
> F: Documentation/ide/
> F: drivers/ide/
> F: include/linux/ide.h
MBR, Sergei
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-18 16:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-18 6:16 [PATCHv2] ide: Use NULL to compare with pointer-typed value rather than 0 zhong jiang
2018-08-18 15:53 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2018-08-18 16:15 ` Joe Perches
2018-08-18 16:21 ` Sergei Shtylyov [this message]
2018-08-18 16:26 ` Joe Perches
2018-08-18 16:25 ` Sergei Shtylyov
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