linux-kernel - [PATCH] staging: rtl8712/: Using comparison to true is error prone

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Date:   Fri, 10 Jul 2020 12:31:13 +0100
From:   John Oldman <john.oldman@...ehill.co.uk>
To:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Cc:     Larry.Finger@...inger.net, florian.c.schilhabel@...glemail.com,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        John Oldman <john.oldman@...ehill.co.uk>
Subject: [PATCH] staging: rtl8712/: Using comparison to true is error prone

clear below issues reported by checkpatch.pl:

CHECK: Using comparison to true is error prone
CHECK: Comparison to NULL should be written "!oldest"

Signed-off-by: John Oldman <john.oldman@...ehill.co.uk>
---
 drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_mlme.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_mlme.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_mlme.c
index 9ee1bfac0763..2ccd49032206 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_mlme.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_mlme.c
@@ -264,13 +264,13 @@ struct	wlan_network *r8712_get_oldest_wlan_network(
 	phead = &scanned_queue->queue;
 	plist = phead->next;
 	while (1) {
-		if (end_of_queue_search(phead, plist) ==  true)
+		if (end_of_queue_search(phead, plist))
 			break;
 		pwlan = container_of(plist, struct wlan_network, list);
-		if (pwlan->fixed != true) {
-			if (oldest == NULL ||
+		if (!pwlan->fixed) {
+			if (!oldest ||
 			    time_after((unsigned long)oldest->last_scanned,
-			    (unsigned long)pwlan->last_scanned))
+				       (unsigned long)pwlan->last_scanned))
 				oldest = pwlan;
 		}
 		plist = plist->next;
--
2.17.1