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Date:   Sat, 25 Jul 2020 15:34:34 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     John Oldman <john.oldman@polehill.co.uk>
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        gustavo@embeddedor.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] Subject: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723bs: core: Using
 comparison to true is error prone
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On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 02:28:06PM +0100, John Oldman wrote:
> clear below issues reported by checkpatch.pl:
> 
> CHECK: Using comparison to true is error prone

Your subject line is very odd :(

> Signed-off-by: John Oldman <john.oldman@polehill.co.uk>
> ---
> v1: Initial attempt.
> v2: Removed unneccessary parentheses around 'pregistrypriv->ht_enable'
> Also considered clearing 'CHECK: Logical continuations should be on the previous line' report
> but this results in exceeding line length guideline.
>  drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_ieee80211.c | 5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_ieee80211.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_ieee80211.c
> index ca98274ae390..7aacbe1b763e 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_ieee80211.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_ieee80211.c
> @@ -363,8 +363,9 @@ int rtw_generate_ie(struct registry_priv *pregistrypriv)
>  	}
> 
>  	/* HT Cap. */
> -	if (((pregistrypriv->wireless_mode&WIRELESS_11_5N) || (pregistrypriv->wireless_mode&WIRELESS_11_24N))
> -		&& (pregistrypriv->ht_enable == true)) {
> +	if (((pregistrypriv->wireless_mode & WIRELESS_11_5N)
> +	      || (pregistrypriv->wireless_mode & WIRELESS_11_24N))
> +	      && pregistrypriv->ht_enable) {

 || and && go on the end of the line, not the front.

But you also changed other things that were not needed here, and you did
not say that in your changelog text :(

thanks,

greg k-h