RE: [PATCH 4.19 3/6] mwifiex: Remove unnecessary braces from HostCmd_SET_SEQ_NO_BSS_INFO

[David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>]

From: Joe Perches
> Sent: 20 December 2021 12:13
> 
> On Fri, 2021-12-17 at 15:41 +0100, Anders Roxell wrote:
> > From: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
> >
> > commit 6a953dc4dbd1c7057fb765a24f37a5e953c85fb0 upstream.
> >
> > A new warning in clang points out when macro expansion might result in a
> > GNU C statement expression. There is an instance of this in the mwifiex
> > driver:
> >
> > drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/cmdevt.c:217:34: warning: '}' and
> > ')' tokens terminating statement expression appear in different macro
> > expansion contexts [-Wcompound-token-split-by-macro]
> >         host_cmd->seq_num = cpu_to_le16(HostCmd_SET_SEQ_NO_BSS_INFO
> >                                         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> []
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/fw.h b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/fw.h
> []
> > @@ -512,10 +512,10 @@ enum mwifiex_channel_flags {
> >
> >  #define RF_ANTENNA_AUTO                 0xFFFF
> >
> > -#define HostCmd_SET_SEQ_NO_BSS_INFO(seq, num, type) {   \
> > -	(((seq) & 0x00ff) |                             \
> > -	 (((num) & 0x000f) << 8)) |                     \
> > -	(((type) & 0x000f) << 12);                  }
> > +#define HostCmd_SET_SEQ_NO_BSS_INFO(seq, num, type) \
> > +	((((seq) & 0x00ff) |                        \
> > +	 (((num) & 0x000f) << 8)) |                 \
> > +	(((type) & 0x000f) << 12))
> 
> Perhaps this would be better as a static inline
> 
> static inline u16 HostCmd_SET_SEQ_NO_BSS_INFO(u16 seq, u8 num, u8 type)
> {
> 	return (type & 0x000f) << 12 | (num & 0x000f) << 8 | (seq & 0x00ff);
> }

Just writing in on one line helps readability!
It is also used exactly twice, both with a cpu_to_le16().
I wonder how well the compiler handles that on BE?
The #define is more likely to be handled better.

I've only made a cursory glance at the code, but I get splitting
host_cmd->seq_num into two u8 fields would give better code!

	David

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