Thanks for the quick response. This is my first patch, so I want to follow the correct protocol. I reran checkpatch after making the changes and there were no errors or warnings in the region I changed. ... WARNING: line over 80 characters #308: FILE: drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c:308: + return cma_dev->default_roce_tos[port - rdma_start_port(cma_dev->device)]; <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< HERE IS WHERE THE ERROR WAS WARNING: line over 80 characters #495: FILE: drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c:495: + struct cma_multicast *mc = container_of(kref, struct cma_multicast, mcref); ... I was have read that it is beneficial to make the changes very small. I wanted to target a specific checkpatch error. If you believe it would be better I can make a patch cleaning up the entire function. I can also make a second patch changing ret to a bool. I did not want to do that as a part of this patch because: I wanted a VERY small change (increase acceptance likelihood), and there is a specific protocol for submitting multiple commits in a patch, i.e. ordering them correctly. I did not want to introduce a potential error source when submitting a patch i.e. I submitted 2 commits in the wrong order. Since you have the comment to remove the brackets around the ret assign how would I go about modifying this patch? Should I resubmit a patch i.e. start a new email with with your proposed changes? On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 11:26 AM Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 11:16:26AM +0000, Max Hirsch wrote: > > When running checkpatch on cma.c the following error was found: > > I think checkpatch will complain about your patch, did you run it? > > > ERROR: do not use assignment in if condition > > #413: FILE: drivers/infiniband/tmp.c:413: > > + if ((ret = (id_priv->state == comp))) > > > > This patch moves the assignment of ret to the previous line. The if statement then checks the value of ret assigned on the previous line. The assigned value of ret is not changed. Testing involved recompiling and loading the kernel. After the changes checkpatch does not report this the error in cma.c. > > > > Signed-off-by: Max Hirsch <max.hirsch@xxxxxxxxx> > > drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c | 3 ++- > > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > > > diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c > > index 25f2b70fd8ef..bdb7a8493517 100644 > > +++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c > > @@ -410,7 +410,8 @@ static int cma_comp_exch(struct rdma_id_private *id_priv, > > int ret; > > > > spin_lock_irqsave(&id_priv->lock, flags); > > - if ((ret = (id_priv->state == comp))) > > + ret = (id_priv->state == comp); > > Brackets are not needed > > Ret and the return result should be changed to a bool > > Jason
