I don't have see any issue with that approach. - Henry Henry Ptasinski henryp@xxxxxxxxxxxx ----- Original Message ----- From: jason <jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: greg@xxxxxxxxx <greg@xxxxxxxxx>; Henry Ptasinski; devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thu Sep 30 11:48:21 2010 Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/9] staging: brcm80211: fix checkpatch error 'assignment in if condition' Joe Perches wrote: > On Thu, 2010-09-30 at 10:43 -0400, Jason Cooper wrote: >> drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcmfmac/wl_iw.c | 286 +++++++++++++++++----------- >> @@ -461,9 +470,14 @@ wl_iw_get_mode(struct net_device *dev, >> >> WL_TRACE(("%s: SIOCGIWMODE\n", dev->name)); >> >> - if ((error = dev_wlc_ioctl(dev, WLC_GET_INFRA, &infra, sizeof(infra))) >> - || (error = dev_wlc_ioctl(dev, WLC_GET_AP, &ap, sizeof(ap)))) >> + error = dev_wlc_ioctl(dev, WLC_GET_INFRA, &infra, sizeof(infra)); >> + if (error) { >> return error; >> + } else { >> + error = dev_wlc_ioctl(dev, WLC_GET_AP, &ap, sizeof(ap)); >> + if (error) >> + return error; >> + } > > Hi Jason. > > The added else is ugly. > Somehow, I knew that was coming... :-) > or it should be multiple lines like: > > error = dev_wlc_ioctl(dev, WLC_GET_INFRA, &infra, sizeof(infra)); > if (error) > return error; > > error = dev_wlc_ioctl(dev, WLC_GET_AP, &ap, sizeof(ap)); > if (error) > return error; > If Henry has no objections, I'll do the above across the series and resubmit. thx, Jason. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel