[openib-general] 0 op factor

[Libor Michalek]

On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 05:58:03PM +0200, Bernhard Fischer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I forgot, but what's the purpose of statements like:
> 
> $ egrep -ri "[^[:digit:]|\.]0[[:space:]]*[-+*/]" *|egrep -v "(\.(svn-base|txt):|/\*)"
> infiniband/ulp/sdp/sdp_inet.c:   * flag: 0 - recv shutdown
> infiniband/ulp/sdp/sdp_actv.c:  sdp_iocb_q_cancel_all(conn, (0 - error));
> infiniband/ulp/sdp/sdp_actv.c:  sdp_cm_actv_error(conn, (0 - result));
> infiniband/ulp/sdp/sdp_actv.c:  sdp_cm_actv_error(conn, (0 - status));
> infiniband/ulp/sdp/sdp_pass.c:  sdp_iocb_q_cancel_all(conn, (0 - error));
> infiniband/ulp/sdp/sdp_pass.c:  sdp_cm_pass_error(conn, (0 - result));
>
> Could somebody please elaborate?

   No point other then the obvious, changing the sign of the variables
value. It's just a style convention that I have no problem changing.

-Libor