Re: [PATCH mlx5-next v1 05/15] net/mlx5: Break encap/decap into two separated flow table creation flags

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On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 9:11 PM, Leon Romanovsky  wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 10:38:00AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 08:10:25AM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
>> > > > -       int en_encap_decap = !!(flags & MLX5_FLOW_TABLE_TUNNEL_EN);
>> > > > +       int en_encap = !!(flags & MLX5_FLOW_TABLE_TUNNEL_EN_ENCAP);
>> > > > +       int en_decap = !!(flags & MLX5_FLOW_TABLE_TUNNEL_EN_DECAP);
>> > >
>> > > Yuk, please don't use !!.
>> > >
>> > >   bool en_decap = flags & MLX5_FLOW_TABLE_TUNNEL_EN_DECAP;
>> >
>> > We need to provide en_encap and en_decap as an input to MLX5_SET(...)
>> > which is passed to FW as 0 or 1.
>> >
>> > Boolean type is declared in C as int and treated as zero for false
>> > and any other value for true,
>>
>> No, that isn't right, the kernel uses C99's _Bool intrinsic type, which
>> is guaranteed to only hold 0 or 1 by the compiler.
>>
>> See types.h:
>>
>> typedef _Bool                   bool;
>
> Exciting, it took me a while to find C99 standard and relevant 6.3.1.2.
> Anyway, this patch didn't change previous functionality, which used "!!"
> convention.

so? if we didn't do things properly prior to the patch, why not fixing it along
with the patch? lets fix



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