Re: [Outreachy kernel] Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: ks7010: Unnecessary parentheses are removed.

[Julia Lawall]

On Sun, 19 Feb 2017, Joe Perches wrote:

> On Sun, 2017-02-19 at 19:58 +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > On Sun, 19 Feb 2017, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2017-02-19 at 23:56 +0530, Arushi Singhal wrote:
> > > > Unnecessary parentheses should be avoided as reported by checkpatch.pl.
> > > > Remove unnecessary parentheses, as reported by checkpatch as are nicer
> > > > to read.For example:-
> > > > It's often nicer to read if &(foo[0]) is converted to foo like:
> > > >      memcpy(&(ap->bssid[0]), &(ap_info->bssid[0]), ETH_ALEN);
> > > >      memcpy(ap->bssid, ap_info->bssid, ETH_ALEN);
> > > []
> > > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_hostif.c b/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_hostif.c
> > > []
> > > > @@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ int get_ap_information(struct ks_wlan_private *priv, struct ap_info_t *ap_info,
> > > >  	memset(ap, 0, sizeof(struct local_ap_t));
> > > >
> > > >  	/* bssid */
> > > > -	memcpy(&(ap->bssid[0]), &(ap_info->bssid[0]), ETH_ALEN);
> > > > +	memcpy(&ap->bssid[0], &ap_info->bssid[0], ETH_ALEN);
> > >
> > > This code doesn't match the suggested style of
> > > your commit message.
> >
> > Is what is suggested in the commit message correct?  That is, is the 0th
> > element of an array always at the same address as a pointer to the array
> > itself?
>
> I think your wording is a little fuzzy.
>
> Assuming you mean not a pointer to the array,
> but the array itself, yes.

Yes, I mean the array itself,sorry.  Thanks.

Arushi, it would be good it you could make the change you proposed to
make.  The calls would look much more normal that way.

thanks,
julia

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