On Wed, 2022-04-06 at 17:37 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote: > If you want to capitalize something in the subject, it could be the first > word. Capitalizing the second word is a bit strange. > > On Wed, 6 Apr 2022, Alaa Mohamed wrote: > > > Reported by checkpatch: > > > > CHECK: Unnecessary parentheses > > Indicating that the problem was detected by checkpatch is good. But > actually, the parentheses all have the same property. So you could use > the log message to describe what kind of unnecessary parentheses were > removed. That would help the maintainer know what to look for. [] > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c [] > > @@ -82,9 +82,9 @@ static inline void handle_pairwise_key(struct sta_info *psta, > > (param->u.crypt. key_len > 16 ? 16 : param->u.crypt.key_len)); > > if (strcmp(param->u.crypt.alg, "TKIP") == 0) { /* set mic key */ > > memcpy(psta->tkiptxmickey. skey, Also, the space after the periods here are not great either. memcpy(psta->tkiptxmickey. skey, vs memcpy(psta->tkiptxmickey.skey,