Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 01:27:41 -0800 (PST) David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:49:33 -0800 >> >>> Subject: bluetooth: fix warning in net/bluetooth/hci_sysfs.c >>> From: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> >>> net/bluetooth/hci_sysfs.c: In function 'del_conn': >>> net/bluetooth/hci_sysfs.c:339: warning: suggest parentheses around >>> assignment used as truth value >>> >>> Cc: Dave Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Cc: David S. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Linus barfed when this exact patch got posted a few weeks >> ago, he said he considers just adding parenthesis to quiet >> this warning awful and explicit NULL test should be used. > > - while (dev = device_find_child(&conn->dev, NULL, __match_tty)) { > + while ((dev = device_find_child(&conn->dev, NULL, __match_tty))) { > > hrm. > > box:/usr/src/linux-2.6.25-rc2> grep -r 'while [(][(].*{$' . | wc -l > > 1240 > box:/usr/src/linux-2.6.25-rc2> grep -r 'while [(][(].*{$' . | grep -v NULL | > wc -l > 867 > > so two thirds of them presently don't bother testing for NULL. It's a > pretty common idiom. > > (adds the != NULL, sees that it reaches column 82, drops patch in disgust)
Not my results: # greps for 'while ((x = y(...)))' see below for variables git-grep -n -A2 "while" | sed -n "s/^\([^\.]*\.[chsS]-[0-9]*-\|\([^\.]*\.[chsS]:[0-9]*:\)$s\)\(.*\)$/\2\3/p" | tr "\n" "@" | grep -o "@[EMAIL PROTECTED]($z($z$W$z=$z$W$z($h)$z)$z)" | tr "@\t" " " | tr -s " " | wc -l 262 # while ((x = y(...)) != NULL) git-grep -n -A2 "while" | sed -n "s/^\([^\.]*\.[chsS]-[0-9]*-\|\([^\.]*\.[chsS]:[0-9]*:\)$s\)\(.*\)$/\2\3/p" | tr "\n" "@" | grep -o "@[EMAIL PROTECTED]($z($z$W$z=$z$W$z($h)$z)$z\!=${z}NULL$z)" | tr "@\t" " " | tr -s " " | wc -l 333 # while ((x = y(...)) != 0) git-grep -n -A2 "while" | sed -n "s/^\([^\.]*\.[chsS]-[0-9]*-\|\([^\.]*\.[chsS]:[0-9]*:\)$s\)\(.*\)$/\2\3/p" | tr "\n" "@" | grep -o "@[EMAIL PROTECTED]($z($z$W$z=$z$W$z($h)$z)$z\!=${z}0$z)" | tr "@\t" " " | tr -s " " | wc -l 45 # while (!(x = y(...))) git-grep -n -A2 "while" | sed -n "s/^\([^\.]*\.[chsS]-[0-9]*-\|\([^\.]*\.[chsS]:[0-9]*:\)$s\)\(.*\)$/\2\3/p" | tr "\n" "@" | grep -o "@[EMAIL PROTECTED]($z\!$z($z$W$z=$z$W$z($h)$z)$z)" | tr "@\t" " " | tr -s " " | wc -l 19 V="[A-Za-z_]\+[A-Za-z0-9_]*" W="$V\(\[$V\]\|\[[0-9]\+\]\|\.$V\|->$V\)*" s="[[:space:]]*" h="[^()]*\(([^()]*)[^()]*\)*" z="[EMAIL PROTECTED]:space:]]*" -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/