You should probably update the subject line because now it's not just about parentheses any more. [PATCH v2] Staging: rtlwifi: clean up crc16_ccitt() So the one thing per patch rule is a little bit about selling your patch. We never allow "Clean up whole_file.c" but we do sometimes allow "Clean up a function()" so long as the patch description sells it in the right way. Blah blah function does "BIT(0) << i" instead of "BIT(i)". Using !! is slightly shorter than "foo ? 1 : 0". Blah blah, etc. On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 05:38:51PM -0500, Madhumitha Prabakaran wrote: > @@ -351,13 +351,13 @@ static u16 crc16_ccitt(u8 data, u16 crc) > else > result |= BIT(0); > > - crc_bit11 = ((crc & BIT(11)) ? 1 : 0) ^ shift_in; > + crc_bit11 = !!(crc & BIT(11)) ^ shift_in; > if (crc_bit11 == 0) > result &= (~BIT(12)); ^ ^ I thought your Coccinelle script was going to complain about these parentheses. Probably the &= confuses it? There are a couple others in the same function. regards, dan carpenter _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel