Re: [PATCH 2/2] v4l: vsp1: Add HGT support

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On Monday 05 Sep 2016 17:57:11 Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 5:43 PM, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> >> +     for (n = 0; n < 6; n++)
> > 
> > Nitpicking, the driver uses pre-increment in for loops (++n), not post-
> > increment. This used to be a best-practice rule in C++, where
> > pre-increment can be faster for non-native types (see
> > http://antonym.org/2008/05/stl-iterators-and-performance.html for
> > instance). I'm not sure if that's still relevant, but I've taken the
> > habit of using the pre-increment operator in for loops, and that's what
> > the rest of this driver does. This comment applies to all other locations
> > in this file.
> 
> <surprised>
> Didn't know we used C++ and operator overloading in the kernel...
> </surprised>

Really ? Where were you when we decided to switch to C++ ? :-)

On a more serious note, as I've explained, the *style* comes from a best 
practice rule in C++. This obviously makes no difference whatsoever in C, nor 
does it in C++ for integer types, it's only a matter of consistency with the 
rest of the driver.

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart

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