Hi!
> > > Linux kernel doesn't like decimals, say so.
> >
> > ?!
> >
> > Linux surely supports decimal constants, like "100". Did you mean
> > "octal"?
> >
> > If you wanted to add warning for something... I never want to see
> >
> > #define CRAPPY_EMBEDDED_REGISTER ((0x1) << (0))
> >
> > again....
>
> Joe means floating point. I suggest that the patchset be reworked,
> using s/decimal/float/g.
>
>
> The kernel does have floating point constants, in various graphics
> drivers, iirc. They are used in places where the floatiness gets
> handled at complation time. Along the lines of:
>
> int foo = 1.1 * 2.2;
....
> A much better solution would be to arrange for the kernel to fail to
> compile (or to fail to link) if floats are used. That way, people
> could continue to use floats within their compile-time scalar
> expressions without getting harrassed by checkpatch. But I don't know
> how to arrange this.
I know it is normally unwanted, but we do have kernel_fpu_begin(). I
thought it enables exactly... floating point math in kernel?
Pavel
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