linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 06/16] rtc: mediatek: remove unnecessary parentheses

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Date:   Sat, 24 Mar 2018 19:53:30 +0100
From:   Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...e-electrons.com>
To:     Sean Wang <sean.wang@...iatek.com>
Cc:     robh+dt@...nel.org, mark.rutland@....com, sre@...nel.org,
        lee.jones@...aro.org, a.zummo@...ertech.it,
        eddie.huang@...iatek.com, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-rtc@...r.kernel.org, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 06/16] rtc: mediatek: remove unnecessary parentheses

On 24/03/2018 at 15:14:12 +0800, Sean Wang wrote:
> On Fri, 2018-03-23 at 11:21 +0100, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> > On 23/03/2018 at 17:15:03 +0800, sean.wang@...iatek.com wrote:
> > > From: Sean Wang <sean.wang@...iatek.com>
> > > 
> > > Remove unnecessary parentheses due to explicit C operator precedence.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Sean Wang <sean.wang@...iatek.com>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/rtc/rtc-mt6397.c | 2 +-
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-mt6397.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-mt6397.c
> > > index 0df7ccd..4411c08 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-mt6397.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-mt6397.c
> > > @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ static irqreturn_t mtk_rtc_irq_handler_thread(int irq, void *data)
> > >  	int ret;
> > >  
> > >  	ret = regmap_read(rtc->regmap, rtc->addr_base + RTC_IRQ_STA, &irqsta);
> > > -	if ((ret >= 0) && (irqsta & RTC_IRQ_STA_AL)) {
> > > +	if (ret >= 0 && irqsta & RTC_IRQ_STA_AL) {
> > 
> > I don't think this makes the code particularly clearer.
> > 
> 
> But it is still a one of check items in checkpatch
> 
> CHECK:UNNECESSARY_PARENTHESES: Unnecessary parentheses around 'ret >= 0'
> #126: FILE: drivers/rtc/rtc-xxx.c:109:
> +       if ((ret >= 0) && (irqsta & RTC_IRQ_STA_AL)) {
> 
> 
> or we still want to keep it in parentheses around here?
> 

Yeah, this is a matter of taste, I would keep the parentheses.


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Alexandre Belloni, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons)
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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