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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Fix usage of true and false as field names in struct taint_flag
On Thu 2016-12-22 13:56:38, Valdis Kletnieks wrote:
> commit 7fd8329ba502ef76dd91db561c7aed696b2c7720
> Author: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
> Date: Wed Sep 21 13:47:22 2016 +0200
>
> taint/module: Clean up global and module taint flags handling
>
> Contains this chunk:

Information about a past commits is usually writted using
the following notation:

The commit 7fd8329ba502ef76dd ("taint/module: Clean up global and
module taint flags handling") contains this chunk:

See also Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst

> --- a/include/linux/kernel.h
^^^

This delimits a standard signature and the commit message below
will be ignored by git. You should omit it in the commit message.

>
> +struct taint_flag {
> + char true; /* character printed when tainted */
> + char false; /* character printed when not tainted */
> + bool module; /* also show as a per-module taint flag */
> +};
>
> and hilarity ensues when an out-of-tree module has this:
>
> # ifndef true
> # define true (1)
> # endif
> # ifndef false
> # define false (0)
> # endif
>
> Change the field names to not shadow something likely to be used
> by third-party modules.
>
> Signed-off-by: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>

The change itself looks fine. With the above fixes in the commit
message, feel free to use

Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>

Thanks for the fix.

Best Regards,
Petr

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