linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] iio: dac: mcp4725: Remove unneeded conversions to bool

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Date:	Fri, 1 Jul 2016 10:18:28 -0500
From:	"Andrew F. Davis" <afd@...com>
To:	Peter Meerwald-Stadler <pmeerw@...erw.net>
CC:	Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>, <linux-iio@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iio: dac: mcp4725: Remove unneeded conversions to bool

On 07/01/2016 10:03 AM, Peter Meerwald-Stadler wrote:
> 
>> Found with scripts/coccinelle/misc/boolconv.cocci.
> 
> I'd argue that
> 
>         pd = (inbuf[0] >> 1) & 0x3;
>         if (pd) {
>                 data->powerdown = true;
>                 data->powerdown_mode = pd - 1;
>         } else {
>                 data->powerdown = false;
>                 data->powerdown_mode = 2; /* largest register to gnd */
>         }
> 
> is less compact but probably easier to read/understand;
> 

I agree, this is a much better fix. Would you like to submit this
version as a patch?

Andrew

>> Signed-off-by: Andrew F. Davis <afd@...com>
> 
> but I'm fine with the proposed patch as well to make cocci happy
> 
> regards, p.
> 
>> ---
>>  drivers/iio/dac/mcp4725.c | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/iio/dac/mcp4725.c b/drivers/iio/dac/mcp4725.c
>> index cca935c..c3bb3fd 100644
>> --- a/drivers/iio/dac/mcp4725.c
>> +++ b/drivers/iio/dac/mcp4725.c
>> @@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ static int mcp4725_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
>>  		return err;
>>  	}
>>  	pd = (inbuf[0] >> 1) & 0x3;
>> -	data->powerdown = pd > 0 ? true : false;
>> +	data->powerdown = pd > 0;
>>  	data->powerdown_mode = pd ? pd - 1 : 2; /* largest register to gnd */
>>  	data->dac_value = (inbuf[1] << 4) | (inbuf[2] >> 4);
>>  
>>
>