Re: [PATCH 3/4] iio: add helper function for reading channel offset in buffer

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Fri Aug 19 2022 - 06:37:40 EST


On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 1:33 PM Artur Rojek <contact@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2022-08-19 10:17, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 1:58 PM Artur Rojek <contact@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:

...

> >> + if (chan->scan_index < 0 ||
> >> + !test_bit(chan->scan_index, buffer->scan_mask)) {
> >> + return -EINVAL;
> >> + }
> >
> > Have you run checkpatch? The {} are redundant. But personally I would
> > split this into two separate conditionals.
> I did run checkpatch on it - all patches were ready for submission.
> I don't find the {} redundant for multi-line statements, like this one,

This is a one-line conditional. So, *unlike* this one.

> and I personally prefer to check conditions that return the same error
> type together.

I see that the maintainer's input is needed here, because even if the
error code is the same, the semantics are different and I consider
that to prevail on the combining.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko