2017-11-06 10:01:34

by Egil Hjelmeland

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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 4/5] net: dsa: lan9303: Remove unnecessary parentheses

On 03. nov. 2017 15:35, Egil Hjelmeland wrote:
> On 03. nov. 2017 15:11, Joe Perches wrote:
>> On Fri, 2017-11-03 at 11:55 +0100, Egil Hjelmeland wrote:
>>> Remove scripts/checkpatch.pl CHECKs by remove unnecessary parentheses
>> []
>>> diff --git a/drivers/net/dsa/lan9303-core.c
>>> b/drivers/net/dsa/lan9303-core.c
>> []
>>> @@ -483,7 +483,7 @@ static int lan9303_detect_phy_setup(struct
>>> lan9303 *chip)
>>>           return reg;
>>>       }
>>> -    if ((reg != 0) && (reg != 0xffff))
>>> +    if (reg != 0 && reg != 0xffff)
>>>           chip->phy_addr_sel_strap = 1;
>>>       else
>>>           chip->phy_addr_sel_strap = 0;
>>
>> phy_addr_sel_strap is currently bool.
>>
>> If this is to be changed, it should be set
>> true or false.
>>
>> My preference would be:
>>
>>     chip->phy_addr_sel_strap = (reg != 0 && reg != 0xffff);
>>
>> But perhaps its bool type should be converted
>> to int as this phy_addr_sel_strap is used as
>> int several times.
>>
>
> Hi Joe
>
> I had not noticed that phy_addr_sel_strap is bool. I agree that is
> misleading. Your suggestion is perhaps a bit "magic", but on the other
> hand the magic is explained well in the comment above.
>
> If there are no disagreements, I can do a v2 with that.
>
> And thanks for teaching me about "git grep"!
>
> Cheers
> Egil
>
Hi
I changed my mind slightly. I will just remove patch 4 in v2. In stead
deal with phy_addr_sel_strap in a separate post.

Because I think I want to rename phy_addr_sel_strap as well, plus some
other simplification. So starting to creep out of the "linting" scope.

Egil


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