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SubjectRe: [PATCH] gpio: clamp returned values to the boolean range
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On Wed, 2014-03-05 at 11:14 +0900, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2014-03-05 at 09:49 +0800, Linus Walleij wrote:
> >> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 9:40 AM, Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Nothing prevents GPIO drivers from returning values outside the
> >> > boolean range, and as it turns out a few drivers are actually doing so.
> >> > These values were passed as-is to unsuspecting consumers and created
> >> > confusion.
> >> >
> >> > This patch makes the internal _gpiod_get_raw_value() function return a
> >> > bool, effectively clamping the GPIO value to the boolean range no
> >> > matter what the driver does.
> >>
> >> No, that will not be the semantic effect of this patch, bool is just
> >> another name for an int, maybe some static checkers will be able
> >> to use it however.
> >
> > No, a bool is not an int.
> >
> > It's really different.
> > include/linux/types.h:typedef _Bool bool;
>
> It indeed seems that _Bool is an actual boolean type in C99. However I
> could not find in the C99 standard how ints are supposed to be
> converted to it.

6.3.1.2 Boolean type

When any scalar value is converted to _Bool, the result is 0 if the
value compares equal to 0; otherwise, the result is 1.

> So in the end it is probably safer to perform this
> change the way Linus suggested.

Not really.




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