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From: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
To: Lakshmi Ramasubramanian <nramas@linux.microsoft.com>
Cc: Shreeya Patel <shreeya.patel23498@gmail.com>,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, outreachy-kernel@googlegroups.com,
	daniel.baluta@gmail.com, hverkuil@xs4all.nl,
	Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net
Subject: Re: [Outreachy kernel] [PATCH] Staging: rtl8723bs: rtw_mlme: Remove unnecessary conditions
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 11:34:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200312113416.23d3db5c@elisabeth> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <61a6c3d7-6592-b57b-6466-995309302cc2@linux.microsoft.com>

Hi Lakshmi,

On Wed, 11 Mar 2020 19:42:06 -0700
Lakshmi Ramasubramanian <nramas@linux.microsoft.com> wrote:

> On 3/11/2020 6:58 AM, Shreeya Patel wrote:
> 
> > Remove unnecessary if and else conditions since both are leading to the
> > initialization of "phtpriv->ampdu_enable" with the same value.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Shreeya Patel <shreeya.patel23498@gmail.com>  
> 
> Stating this based on the patch descriptions I have seen.
> Others, please advise\correct me if I am wrong.
> 
> Patch description should state the problem first[1] and then describe 
> how that is fixed in the given patch.
> 
> For example:
> 
> In the function rtw_update_ht_cap(), phtpriv->ampdu_enable is set to the 
> same value in both if and else statements.
> 
> This patch removes this unnecessary if-else statement.

That's my general preference as well, but I can't find any point in the
"Describe your changes" section of submitting-patches.rst actually
defining the order. I wouldn't imply that from the sequence the steps
are presented in.

In case it's possible to say everything with a single statement as
Shreeya did here, though, I guess that becomes rather a linguistic
factor, and I personally prefer the concise version here.

-- 
Stefano


  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-12 10:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-11 13:58 [Outreachy kernel] [PATCH] Staging: rtl8723bs: rtw_mlme: Remove unnecessary conditions Shreeya Patel
2020-03-12  2:42 ` Lakshmi Ramasubramanian
2020-03-12 10:34   ` Stefano Brivio [this message]
2020-03-12 10:49     ` Julia Lawall
2020-03-12 16:31       ` Lakshmi Ramasubramanian
2020-03-13  7:48   ` Dan Carpenter
2020-03-13  7:43 ` Dan Carpenter

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