[PATCH 0/5] drivers/mtd: make several functions return bool

[Boris Brezillon]

On Fri, 25 Mar 2016 08:57:59 +0100
Richard Weinberger <richard at nod.at> wrote:

> Am 25.03.2016 um 07:31 schrieb Yaowei Bai:
> > On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 10:54:51AM +0800, Dongsheng Yang wrote:
> >> ccing: Brian and Richard
> >>
> >> Hi Yao,
> >>     Is that really necessary? I am not sure how much benefit we can
> >> achieve from this change.
> >> Could you explain more?
> > 
> > Yes, according to these functions' name, a boolean return value is more
> > suitable and matchable.
> > 
> > Also personally think this change maybe benfit function's return value 
> > storage in the stack when called on certain architectures.
> 
> On which archs? And what exactly is the benefit?
> I agree that bool might be a better choice for new functions
> but here you're touching existing and working(!) code.
> The only outcome is git history pollution that makes git blame
> less efficient.

Indeed, you raised a good point. Having useless changes pollute git
blame output may be problematic. Not sure I want to apply those patches
anymore :-/.

Anyway, Yao, I'm sure you can find other usefull things to contribute.

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Boris Brezillon, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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