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@xxxxxxxx> --- drivers/media/i2c/msp3400-kthreads.c | 12 ++++++++---- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/media/i2c/msp3400-kthreads.c b/drivers/media/i2c/msp3400-kthreads.c index 52e506f86de5..ecabc0e1d32e 100644 --- a/drivers/media/i2c/msp3400-kthreads.c +++ b/drivers/media/i2c/msp3400-kthreads.c @@ -549,8 +549,10 @@ int msp3400c_thread(void *data) val = msp_read_dsp(client, 0x1b); if (val > 32767) val -= 65536; - if (val1 < val) - val1 = val, max1 = i; + if (val1 < val) { + val1 = val; + max1 = i; + } dev_dbg_lvl(&client->dev, 1, msp_debug, "carrier1 val: %5d / %s\n", val, cd[i].name); } @@ -586,8 +588,10 @@ int msp3400c_thread(void *data) val = msp_read_dsp(client, 0x1b); if (val > 32767) val -= 65536; - if (val2 < val) - val2 = val, max2 = i; + if (val2 < val) { + val2 = val; + max2 = i; + } dev_dbg_lvl(&client->dev, 1, msp_debug, "carrier2 val: %5d / %s\n", val, cd[i].name); }