Re: [Outreachy kernel] [PATCH] staging: rtl8723bs: Remove unnecessary braces for single statements

From: Stefano Brivio
Date: Sun Mar 29 2020 - 21:03:42 EST


On Wed, 25 Mar 2020 19:32:45 +0530
Simran Singhal <singhalsimran0@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Clean up unnecessary braces around single statement blocks.
> Issues reported by checkpatch.pl as:
> WARNING: braces {} are not necessary for single statement blocks
>
> Signed-off-by: Simran Singhal <singhalsimran0@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_efuse.c | 9 +++------
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_efuse.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_efuse.c
> index bdb6ff8aab7d..de7d15fdc936 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_efuse.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_efuse.c
> @@ -43,9 +43,8 @@ Efuse_Read1ByteFromFakeContent(
> u16 Offset,
> u8 *Value)
> {
> - if (Offset >= EFUSE_MAX_HW_SIZE) {
> + if (Offset >= EFUSE_MAX_HW_SIZE)
> return false;
> - }
> /* DbgPrint("Read fake content, offset = %d\n", Offset); */

I find the resulting version a bit confusing:

if (Offset >= EFUSE_MAX_HW_SIZE)
return false;
/* DbgPrint("Read fake content, offset = %d\n", Offset); */
if (fakeEfuseBank == 0)
*Value = fakeEfuseContent[Offset];

The check on "Offset" isn't separated in any way by the following
logic. I would suggest that you replace the closing brace by a newline,
also for the other cases you're fixing up here:

if (Offset >= EFUSE_MAX_HW_SIZE)
return false;

/* DbgPrint("Read fake content, offset = %d\n", Offset); */
...

--
Stefano