linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 04/20] media: saa7134: use semicolons rather than commas to separate statements

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2009291845160.2808@hadrien>
Date:   Tue, 29 Sep 2020 18:46:06 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...ia.fr>
To:     Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
cc:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Valdis Klētnieks <valdis.kletnieks@...edu>,
        Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-media@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/20] media: saa7134: use semicolons rather than commas
 to separate statements



On Tue, 29 Sep 2020, Christophe JAILLET wrote:

> Le 29/09/2020 à 15:14, Julia Lawall a écrit :
> > Replace commas with semicolons.  Commas introduce unnecessary
> > variability in the code structure and are hard to see.  What is done
> > is essentially described by the following Coccinelle semantic patch
> > (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/):
> >
> > // <smpl>
> > @@ expression e1,e2; @@
> > e1
> > -,
> > +;
> > e2
> > ... when any
> > // </smpl>
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...ia.fr>
> >
> > ---
> >   drivers/media/pci/saa7134/saa7134-video.c |    7 +++++--
> >   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/media/pci/saa7134/saa7134-video.c
> > b/drivers/media/pci/saa7134/saa7134-video.c
> > index 9a6a6b68f8e3..2ca963b04b3f 100644
> > --- a/drivers/media/pci/saa7134/saa7134-video.c
> > +++ b/drivers/media/pci/saa7134/saa7134-video.c
> > @@ -868,8 +868,11 @@ static int buffer_activate(struct saa7134_dev *dev,
> >   		lines_uv = dev->height >> dev->fmt->vshift;
> >   		base2    = base + bpl * dev->height;
> >   		base3    = base2 + bpl_uv * lines_uv;
> > -		if (dev->fmt->uvswap)
> > -			tmp = base2, base2 = base3, base3 = tmp;
> > +		if (dev->fmt->uvswap) {
> > +			tmp = base2;
> > +			base2 = base3;
> > +			base3 = tmp;
> > +		}
> >   		video_dbg("uv: bpl=%ld lines=%ld base2/3=%ld/%ld\n",
> >   			bpl_uv,lines_uv,base2,base3);
> >   		if (V4L2_FIELD_HAS_BOTH(dev->field)) {
> >
> >
> Hi,
> this could be turned into a simpler:
>    swap(base2, base3);

Yes.  The conclusion is probably that it could be worth searching for swap
opportunities after this.  There are a lot of patches to send on these
commas, and I would rather not deviate to something else...

julia