linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] [media] staging/atomisp: fixed trivial coding style issue

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Message-ID: <1500249440.4457.95.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Sun, 16 Jul 2017 16:57:20 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Shy More <smklearn@...il.com>
Cc:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jiri Kosina <trivial@...nel.org>,
        Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>, linux-media@...r.kernel.org,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] [media] staging/atomisp: fixed trivial coding style
 issue

On Sun, 2017-07-16 at 16:38 -0700, Shy More wrote:
> Below was the trival error flagged by checkpatch.pl:
> ERROR: space prohibited after that open parenthesis '('
[]
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/atomisp/pci/atomisp2/css2400/runtime/isys/src/ibuf_ctrl_rmgr.c b/drivers/staging/media/atomisp/pci/atomisp2/css2400/runtime/isys/src/ibuf_ctrl_rmgr.c
[]
> @@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ void ia_css_isys_ibuf_rmgr_release(
>  	for (i = 0; i < ibuf_rsrc.num_allocated; i++) {
>  		handle = getHandle(i);
>  		if ((handle->start_addr == *start_addr)
> -		    && ( true == handle->active)) {
> +		    && (true == handle->active)) {
>  			handle->active = false;
>  			ibuf_rsrc.num_active--;
>  			break;

Better would have been to remove the comparison to true

		if (handle->start_addr == *start_addr && handle->active)

but this would probably read better and perhaps be
marginally faster on some processors if written like:

		if (handle->active && handle->start_addr == *start_addr)