Re: [PATCH] usb: move assignment out of if condition

[Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>]

On Tue, 2015-06-30 at 09:02 -0400, Kris Borer wrote:
> Fix four occurrences of the checkpatch.pl error:
> 
> ERROR: do not use assignment in if condition
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kris Borer <kborer@gmail.com>

Sorry, but NACK!
Those patches are totally broken.

> ---
>  drivers/usb/core/hcd.c | 13 ++++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/hcd.c b/drivers/usb/core/hcd.c
> index be5b207..e268c45 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/core/hcd.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/core/hcd.c
> @@ -2683,12 +2683,13 @@ int usb_add_hcd(struct usb_hcd *hcd,
>  	 * bottom up so that hcds can customize the root hubs before hub_wq
>  	 * starts talking to them.  (Note, bus id is assigned early too.)
>  	 */
> -	if ((retval = hcd_buffer_create(hcd)) != 0) {
> +	retval = hcd_buffer_create(hcd);
> +	if (retval != 0) {
>  		dev_dbg(hcd->self.controller, "pool alloc failed\n");
>  		goto err_create_buf;
>  	}
> -
> -	if ((retval = usb_register_bus(&hcd->self)) < 0)
> +	retval = usb_register_bus(&hcd->self);
> +	if (retval < 0)
>  		goto err_register_bus;
>  
>  	rhdev = usb_alloc_dev(NULL, &hcd->self, 0);
> @@ -2734,7 +2735,8 @@ int usb_add_hcd(struct usb_hcd *hcd,
>  	/* "reset" is misnamed; its role is now one-time init. the controller
>  	 * should already have been reset (and boot firmware kicked off etc).
>  	 */
> -	if (hcd->driver->reset && (retval = hcd->driver->reset(hcd)) < 0) {
> +	retval = hcd->driver->reset(hcd);

You happily follow the NULL pointer.

	Regards
		Oliver