linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: ks7010: Unnecessary parentheses are removed.

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Message-ID: <1487529117.2198.36.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Sun, 19 Feb 2017 10:31:57 -0800
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Arushi Singhal <arushisinghal19971997@...il.com>,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Cc:     devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        outreachy-kernel@...glegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: ks7010: Unnecessary parentheses are
 removed.

On Sun, 2017-02-19 at 23:56 +0530, Arushi Singhal wrote:
> Unnecessary parentheses should be avoided as reported by checkpatch.pl.
> Remove unnecessary parentheses, as reported by checkpatch as are nicer
> to read.For example:-
> It's often nicer to read if &(foo[0]) is converted to foo like:
>      memcpy(&(ap->bssid[0]), &(ap_info->bssid[0]), ETH_ALEN);
>      memcpy(ap->bssid, ap_info->bssid, ETH_ALEN);
[]
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_hostif.c b/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_hostif.c
[]
> @@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ int get_ap_information(struct ks_wlan_private *priv, struct ap_info_t *ap_info,
>  	memset(ap, 0, sizeof(struct local_ap_t));
>  
>  	/* bssid */
> -	memcpy(&(ap->bssid[0]), &(ap_info->bssid[0]), ETH_ALEN);
> +	memcpy(&ap->bssid[0], &ap_info->bssid[0], ETH_ALEN);

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