Re: [PATCH] Staging: rtl8187se: r8180_core.c: Fix coding style issue

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 15:18 +1100, Ryan Mallon wrote:
> That's still pretty nasty. Eight lines for an if expression! It took me
> a couple of glances to realise that there were only two arguments to
> eqMacAddr. If you add some temporary variables then you can make the
> code a lot more sane, without making it overly verbose:
> 
> 	u8 *addr, *bssid = priv->ieee80211->current_network.bssid;
> 
> 	if (fc & IEEE80211_FCTL_TODS)
> 		addr = hdr->addr1;
> 	else if (fc & IEEE80211_FCTL_FROMDS)
> 		addr = hdr->addr2;
> 	else
> 		addr = hdr->addr3;
> 
> 	if (!bHwError && !bCRC && !bICV &&
> 	    type != IEEE80211_FTYPE_CTL && eqMacAddr(bssid, addr)) {
> 		...
> 
> Also note that the whole if block is indented one too many tab stops.
> Would be best to fix that in a separate patch though. If you fix that
> first, then you will have more horizontal space to re-organise the
> expression inside the if :-).

Yeah, what Ryan said.  Clarity is good.
You might separate the addr and bssid declarations
into 2 lines though...

_______________________________________________
devel mailing list
devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel


[Index of Archives]     [Linux Driver Backports]     [DMA Engine]     [Linux GPIO]     [Linux SPI]     [Video for Linux]     [Linux USB Devel]     [Linux Coverity]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]     [Yosemite Backpacking]
  Powered by Linux