Re: [PATCH v2] Staging: rtlwifi: Remove unwanted parentheses

[Madhumthia Prabakaran <madhumithabiw@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 12:09:00PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> You should probably update the subject line because now it's not just
> about parentheses any more.
> 
> [PATCH v2] Staging: rtlwifi: clean up crc16_ccitt()
> 
> So the one thing per patch rule is a little bit about selling your
> patch.  We never allow "Clean up whole_file.c" but we do sometimes allow
> "Clean up a function()" so long as the patch description sells it in
> the right way.
> 
> Blah blah function does "BIT(0) << i" instead of "BIT(i)".  Using !!
> is slightly shorter than "foo ? 1 : 0".  Blah blah, etc.


Thanks for feedback!

> 
> On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 05:38:51PM -0500, Madhumitha Prabakaran wrote:
> > @@ -351,13 +351,13 @@ static u16 crc16_ccitt(u8 data, u16 crc)
> >  		else
> >  			result |= BIT(0);
> >  
> > -		crc_bit11 = ((crc & BIT(11)) ? 1 : 0) ^ shift_in;
> > +		crc_bit11 = !!(crc & BIT(11)) ^ shift_in;
> >  		if (crc_bit11 == 0)
> >  			result &= (~BIT(12));
>                                   ^        ^
> I thought your Coccinelle script was going to complain about these
> parentheses.  Probably the &= confuses it?  There are a couple others
> in the same function.

I didn't included assignment operators in the earlier Coccinelle script. However, I
edited it now.

> 
> regards,
> dan carpenter