From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jiri Slaby Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 20:16:59 +0000 Subject: Re: [patch] TTY: synclink, small cleanup in dtr_rts() Message-Id: <51058B3B.3010400@suse.cz> List-Id: References: <20130127194039.GA18787@elgon.mountain> <1359317078.14406.12.camel@joe-AO722> In-Reply-To: <1359317078.14406.12.camel@joe-AO722> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Joe Perches Cc: Dan Carpenter , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Paul Fulghum , David Howells , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org On 01/27/2013 09:04 PM, Joe Perches wrote: > On Sun, 2013-01-27 at 22:40 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: >> There is a kind of precedence problem here, but it doesn't affect how >> the code works because ->serial_signals is unsigned char. We want to >> clear two flags here. >> >> #define SerialSignal_RTS 0x20 /* Request to Send */ >> #define SerialSignal_DTR 0x80 /* Data Terminal Ready */ >> >> Without the parenthesis then it does: >> >> info->serial_signals &= 0x5f; >> >> With the parenthesis it does: >> >> info->serial_signals &= 0xffffff5f; >> >> info->serial_signals is an unsigned char so the two statements are >> equivalent, but it's cleaner to add the parenthesis. In other dtr_rts() >> functions the parenthesis are there so this makes it more consistent. > > > Wouldn't it be clearer still to use | instead of + Ack, the plus is a mindfuck. -- js suse labs