[PATCH 1/2] staging: vt6656: aes_ccmp, baseband, bssdb, card: Change BOOL to int
Dan Carpenter
dan.carpenter at oracle.com
Tue Dec 6 06:10:18 UTC 2011
On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 10:41:54PM -0200, Marcos Paulo de Souza wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Dec 2011, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> >On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 11:12:46PM -0200, Marcos Paulo de Souza wrote:
> >>This patch change all references of BOOL to int. As asked by the TODO
> >>file of the driver, we need to remove the ttype.h, and this file do a
> >>typedef of int to BOOL. We don't need this.
>
> Dan, I'm trying to remove this chunk of code:
>
> drivers/staging/vt6656/ttype.h:
>
> typedef int BOOL;
>
> Are we talinkg about the same BOOL type?
>
Yes.
> >
> >Why not use bool? Especially inside structs bool takes up less
> >space than an int. Also static analysis tools care about the type.
>
> This typedef is about a int type.
Yes. I know that. But these things are used like bool not like int
so bool is the correct thing.
Bool is a different type from int, so you'll have to verify that
changing it doesn't break anything. It's a more difficult change
but it's the right thing to do.
regards,
dan carpenter
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