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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: "devendra.aaru" <devendra.aaru@gmail.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Justin P. Mattock" <justinmattock@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 1/3] staging/rtl8192u: fix coding style problems
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 22:10:51 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120623191051.GF5333@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHdPZaMH1vJPsFmGFrrpWNtCxuY+S35-w2j+gbiiE=7jVKLtUQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 12:04:12AM +0530, devendra.aaru wrote:
> Hi Joe,
> 
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 4:48 AM, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 16:08 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> >> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 12:35:42AM +0530, Devendra Naga wrote:
> >> > fixed some of the coding style problems reported by checkpatch
> > []
> >> > @@ -66,11 +69,10 @@ short eprom_r(struct net_device *dev)
> >> >  {
> >> >     short bit;
> >> >
> >> > -   bit=(read_nic_byte_E(dev, EPROM_CMD) & (1<<EPROM_R_SHIFT) );
> >> > +   bit = (read_nic_byte_E(dev, EPROM_CMD) & (1<<EPROM_R_SHIFT));
> >> >     udelay(EPROM_DELAY);
> >> >
> >> > -   if(bit) return 1;
> >> > -   return 0;
> >> > +   return !!bit;
> >>
> >> Oh come on, really?  !! is more "clear" here?
> >
> > Depends on the reader.  !! is pretty common.
> >
> >> No, please be painfully obvious, that's the only way to write kernel
> >> code.  Not like this.
> >
> > I'd just make the return a bool instead.
> >
>  taking another variable and assign it like bool ret = !!bit, and
> returning ret?, i think this doesn't look better.

*eye roll*

	if (bit)
		return 1;
	return 0;

regards,
dan carpenter



  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-23 19:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-19 19:05 [PATCH V2 1/3] staging/rtl8192u: fix coding style problems Devendra Naga
2012-06-20 23:08 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-06-20 23:18   ` Joe Perches
2012-06-23 18:34     ` devendra.aaru
2012-06-23 19:10       ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2012-06-23 20:51       ` Joe Perches
2012-06-23 18:29   ` devendra.aaru

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