[Ingo Molnar - Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 06:22:50PM +0100]
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| * Cyrill Gorcunov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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| > orig:
| > mbr_base = (buf_base+sector_size-1) & ~(sector_size-1);
| > new (could be):
| > mbr_base = (buf_base + sector_size - 1) & ~(sector_size - 1);
| >
| > Is a new version that bad?
|
| it's certainly acceptable as newly introduced code but only borderline
| better than the original code. I'd suggest to stick to the problem areas
| that checkpatch.pl complains about at the moment - we have really
| obvious bad looking pieces of code that checkpatch.pl reports, and going
| after the borderline cases will only result in coding-style lawyering
| and flamewars, not any genuine increase in code quality ;-)
|
| for example:
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| arch/x86/kernel/bootflag.c:
|
| total: 19 errors, 2 warnings, 98 lines checked
|
| or:
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| arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c:
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| total: 56 errors, 31 warnings, 2402 lines checked
|
| and once we have nothing but the borderline cases and if we get really
| bored we can start coding style flamewars ;-)
|
| Ingo
|
Thanks Ingo, you're quite right! Next time i'll appear in list with real
(and hope usefull) patch ;)
Cyrill
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