On Mon, 2012-08-13 at 19:01 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 09:50:44AM +1000, Ryan Mallon wrote: > > On 01/08/12 14:54, Cruz Julian Bishop wrote: > > > Previously, when calling is_between(a, b, c), the calculation was wrong. > > > It counted C as between A and B if C was equal to B, but not A. > > > > > > Example of this are: > > > > > > is_between(1, 10, 10) = 1 (Expected: 0) > > > is_between(1, 10, 1) = 0 (Expected: 0) > > > is_between(20, 10, 10) = 1 (Expected: 0) > > > > > > And so on and so forth. > > > > > > Obviously, ten is not a number between one and ten - only two to eight > > > are, so I made this patch :) > > > > Is nine not a number between one and ten? :-p. > > > > The question with a patch like this is whether the function's > > documentation, which says it returns 1 if a < c < b is wrong, or whether > > the implementation, which does a < c <= b is wrong. If the documentation > > is wrong, and something is relying on the current implementation, then > > this patch might actually break things. > > I agree, which is correct? I'd stick with the code for now, care to fix > the comment instead? > > greg k-h
Sure, I'll send a new patch for it soon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
