[PATCH 00/18] use semicolons rather than commas to separate statements

Shuah Khan skhan at linuxfoundation.org
Tue Sep 29 09:42:49 EDT 2020


On 9/29/20 7:34 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2020-09-29 at 14:47 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
>> On Tue, 29 Sep 2020, Dan Carpenter wrote:
>>> The times where commas are used deliberately to replace curly braces are
>>> just evil.  Either way the code is cleaner with semi-colons.
>>
>> I also found exaamples like the following to be particularly unforunate:
>>
>>                                  fprintf(stderr,
>>                                          "page_nr %lu wrong count %Lu %Lu\n",
>>                                         page_nr, count,
>>                                         count_verify[page_nr]), exit(1);
>>
>> The exit is very hard to see, unless you know to look for it.
> 
> I sent that patch last month.
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11734877/
> 

I see what happened. This patch touches lib, cpupower, and selftests.
Guess lost in the limbo of who takes it.

  tools/lib/subcmd/help.c                    |  10 +-
  tools/power/cpupower/utils/cpufreq-set.c   |  14 +-
  tools/testing/selftests/vm/gup_benchmark.c |  18 +-
  tools/testing/selftests/vm/userfaultfd.c   | 296 +++++++++++++--------
  4 files changed, 210 insertions(+), 128 deletions(-)

I can take it through one of my trees.

thanks,
-- Shuah



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