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Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [FOR 0.12 PATCH 2/4] pci: don't hw_error() when no


From: Gleb Natapov
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [FOR 0.12 PATCH 2/4] pci: don't hw_error() when no slot is available.
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:13:06 +0200

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 08:04:56PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 03:22:52PM +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 02:23:05PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 01:19:10PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > > >   Hi,
> > > >
> > > >>> +    if (pci_dev == NULL) {
> > > >>> +        hw_error("PCI: can't register device\n");
> > > >>> +    }
> > > >>
> > > >> Can you please use !pci_dev for these checks?
> > > >
> > > > Why?  IMHO the code is more readable that way.  It is easy to miss a  
> > > > single '!' character when reading the code, so I tend to write such  
> > > > tests in a more verbose fashion.
> > > >
> > > > cheers,
> > > >   Gerd
> > > 
> > > Reader has limited short term memory. Don't fill it up with
> > > irrelevant detail. In places where it might be confusing,
> > > a comment might be appropriate, this is not one of them.
> > > 
> > > C is a terse language. !x is a standard idiom. Let's use it.
> > > 
> > ! is for boolean.
> 
> In which language? Not in C.
> 
In boolean. My point is no need to force your style on everyone if it is
not in coding style document. == often much more readable then !.

> > pci_dev is not boolean.
> > --
> >                     Gleb.

--
                        Gleb.




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