Re: [PATCH] staging: sm750fb: remove unnecessary parentheses in ddk750_swi2c.c

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Feb 04, 2026 at 05:55:25PM +0500, Zeeshan Ahmad wrote:
> Checkpatch reported "Unnecessary parentheses around 'clk_gpio > 31'"
> and 'data_gpio > 31'.
> 
> Remove the extra parentheses to clean up the code and satisfy the
> coding style guidelines.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zeeshan Ahmad <zeeshanahmad022019@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/sm750fb/ddk750_swi2c.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/sm750fb/ddk750_swi2c.c b/drivers/staging/sm750fb/ddk750_swi2c.c
> index 0ef8d4ff2ef9..50e51d730d86 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/sm750fb/ddk750_swi2c.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/sm750fb/ddk750_swi2c.c
> @@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ long sm750_sw_i2c_init(unsigned char clk_gpio, unsigned char data_gpio)
>  	 * Return 0 if the GPIO pins to be used is out of range. The
>  	 * range is only from [0..63]
>  	 */
> -	if ((clk_gpio > 31) || (data_gpio > 31))
> +	if (clk_gpio > 31 || data_gpio > 31)

Now I have to remember which is a higher priority in C, > or ||

Please don't make changes like this, I thought checkpatch turned these
off for staging code, as I keep complaining about it on a weekly (or
more than that) basis :(

If you look at the mailing list, I think I just complained about this a
few hours before you sent this change as well...

thanks,

greg k-h