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Date:   Sat, 25 Jul 2020 15:07:59 +0100
From:   "<John Oldman>" <john.oldman@...ehill.co.uk>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        gustavo@...eddedor.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] Subject: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723bs: core: Using
 comparison to true is error prone

On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 03:34:34PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 02:28:06PM +0100, John Oldman wrote:
> > clear below issues reported by checkpatch.pl:
> > 
> > CHECK: Using comparison to true is error prone
> 
> Your subject line is very odd :(

Thanks, I should read all before I send: I will re-send the patch.

> 
> > Signed-off-by: John Oldman <john.oldman@...ehill.co.uk>
> > ---
> > v1: Initial attempt.
> > v2: Removed unneccessary parentheses around 'pregistrypriv->ht_enable'
> > Also considered clearing 'CHECK: Logical continuations should be on the previous line' report
> > but this results in exceeding line length guideline.
> >  drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_ieee80211.c | 5 +++--
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_ieee80211.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_ieee80211.c
> > index ca98274ae390..7aacbe1b763e 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_ieee80211.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_ieee80211.c
> > @@ -363,8 +363,9 @@ int rtw_generate_ie(struct registry_priv *pregistrypriv)
> >  	}
> > 
> >  	/* HT Cap. */
> > -	if (((pregistrypriv->wireless_mode&WIRELESS_11_5N) || (pregistrypriv->wireless_mode&WIRELESS_11_24N))
> > -		&& (pregistrypriv->ht_enable == true)) {
> > +	if (((pregistrypriv->wireless_mode & WIRELESS_11_5N)
> > +	      || (pregistrypriv->wireless_mode & WIRELESS_11_24N))
> > +	      && pregistrypriv->ht_enable) {
> 
>  || and && go on the end of the line, not the front.
> 
> But you also changed other things that were not needed here, and you did
> not say that in your changelog text :(
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h