Thanks, you help me alot If you don't mind me asking a few more question. Would fixing things like this - if(x==y) + if(x == y) be worthless? Changing c++ style comment to c style? And I should not wory about line being longer the 80 charactor, unless they are just extremely long? I'm just over half way through my CS degree, so I'm a complete noob. I'm still learning what is not worth spending time on and what is. On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 07:12:26PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > On Tue, 2012-03-13 at 21:49 -0400, Andrew Miller wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 06:33:56PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > > > On Tue, 2012-03-13 at 20:58 -0400, Andrew Miller wrote: > > > > Fix long line coding style issue > > > > Signed-off-by: Andrew Miller <amiller@xxxxxxxxx> > > > Please strive for clarity instead of just fixing > > > random 80 char warnings. > > > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8187se/r8180_core.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8187se/r8180_core.c > > > [] > > > > @@ -1607,17 +1609,20 @@ void rtl8180_rx(struct net_device *dev) > > > > /* printk("==========================>rx : RXAGC is %d,signalstrength is %d\n",RXAGC,stats.signalstrength); */ > > > > stats.rssi = priv->wstats.qual.qual = priv->SignalQuality; > > > > stats.noise = priv->wstats.qual.noise = 100 - priv->wstats.qual.qual; > > > > - bHwError = (((*(priv->rxringtail)) & (0x00000fff)) == 4080) | (((*(priv->rxringtail)) & (0x04000000)) != 0) > > > > - | (((*(priv->rxringtail)) & (0x08000000)) != 0) | (((~(*(priv->rxringtail))) & (0x10000000)) != 0) | (((~(*(priv->rxringtail))) & (0x20000000)) != 0); > > > > + bHwError = (((*(priv->rxringtail)) & (0x00000fff)) == 4080) | > > > > + (((*(priv->rxringtail)) & (0x04000000)) != 0) | > > > > + (((*(priv->rxringtail)) & (0x08000000)) != 0) | > > > > + (((~(*(priv->rxringtail))) & (0x10000000)) != 0) | > > > > + (((~(*(priv->rxringtail))) & (0x20000000)) != 0); > > > Likely these | uses should be || > > I'm not really sure what you mean, do you mean I should change '|' to '||"? > > like this > > bHwError = (((*(priv->rxringtail)) & (0x00000fff)) == 4080) || > > (((*(priv->rxringtail)) & (0x04000000)) != 0) || > > (((*(priv->rxringtail)) & (0x08000000)) != 0) || > > (((~(*(priv->rxringtail))) & (0x10000000)) != 0) || > > (((~(*(priv->rxringtail))) & (0x20000000)) != 0); > > Yes. > > If this bit of code is especially performance sensitive, > there are times when using | instead of || can be an > overall speed improvement. I haven't looked at this > code before so I don't know what's appropriate here but > using || might be more sensible though possibly slower. > > > > It might be better to reshuffle the test order too: > > > if (IEEE80211_FTYPE_CTL != type && > > > !bHwError && bCRC && !bICV && > > > eqMacAddr(priv->ieee80211->current_network.bssid, > > > fc & IEEE80211_FCTL_TODS ? hdr->addr1 : > > > fc & IEEE80211_FCTL_FROMDS ? hdr->addr2 : > > > hdr->addr3)) > > > etc... > > That does look much cleaner, It never occurred to me that I can do that. > > Feel empowered to make the code better. Do what's right. > Don't just correct mindless checkpatch error messages. > > cheers, Joe _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel