linux-kernel - Re: [Outreachy kernel] [PATCH v2] Staging: rtl8723bs: rtw

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Date:   Sat, 14 Mar 2020 21:32:29 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Shreeya Patel <shreeya.patel23498@...il.com>,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, outreachy-kernel@...glegroups.com,
        sbrivio@...hat.com, daniel.baluta@...il.com,
        nramas@...ux.microsoft.com, hverkuil@...all.nl,
        Larry.Finger@...inger.net
Subject: Re: [Outreachy kernel] [PATCH v2] Staging: rtl8723bs: rtw_mlme:
 Remove unnecessary conditions

On Sat, 2020-03-14 at 16:58 +0530, Shreeya Patel wrote:
> This could be:
> >  	if ((!(phtpriv->ampdu_enable) && pregistrypriv->ampdu_enable ==
> > 1)) ||
> > 	    pregistrypriv->ampdu_enable == 2)
> > 		phtpriv->ampdu_enable = true;
> > 
> > Though it is probably more sensible to just set
> > phtpriv->ampdu_enable without testing whether or
> > not it's already set:
> > 
> > 	if (pregistrypriv->ampdu_enable == 1 ||
> > 	    pregistrypriv->ampdu_enable == 2)
> > 		phtpriv->ampdu_enable = true;
> 
> But the else-if block which I removed in v2 of this patch had nothing
> in the block.
> It was not assigning any value to "phtpriv->ampdu_enable". ( basically
> it was empty and useless)

Right, I misread the deletions from patch.