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

From: Julia Lawall
Date: Mon Feb 20 2017 - 02:03:01 EST




On Mon, 20 Feb 2017, 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);

The commit message is not well presented. One has the impression that all
of the changes are related to 0 array elements. It would be better to
split the patch into two: one for removing parentheses, and one for making
the &x[0] -> x change. They don't really have anything to do with each
other.

julia


>
> Signed-off-by: Arushi Singhal <arushisinghal19971997@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_hostif.c | 20 ++++++++++----------
> drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_wlan_net.c | 20 ++++++++++----------
> 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_hostif.c b/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_hostif.c
> index ba283ab741a7..2d5ec57c5cfd 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_hostif.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_hostif.c
> @@ -239,19 +239,19 @@ int get_ap_information(struct ks_wlan_private *priv, struct ap_info_t *ap_info,
> *(bp + 1));
> ap->ssid.size = SSID_MAX_SIZE;
> }
> - memcpy(&(ap->ssid.body[0]), bp + 2, ap->ssid.size);
> + memcpy(ap->ssid.body, bp + 2, ap->ssid.size);
> break;
> case 1: /* rate */
> case 50: /* ext rate */
> if ((*(bp + 1) + ap->rate_set.size) <=
> RATE_SET_MAX_SIZE) {
> - memcpy(&(ap->rate_set.body[ap->rate_set.size]),
> + memcpy(&ap->rate_set.body[ap->rate_set.size],
> bp + 2, *(bp + 1));
> ap->rate_set.size += *(bp + 1);
> } else {
> DPRINTK(1, "size over :: rate size=%d\n",
> (*(bp + 1) + ap->rate_set.size));
> - memcpy(&(ap->rate_set.body[ap->rate_set.size]),
> + memcpy(&ap->rate_set.body[ap->rate_set.size],
> bp + 2,
> RATE_SET_MAX_SIZE - ap->rate_set.size);
> ap->rate_set.size +=
> @@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ int get_ap_information(struct ks_wlan_private *priv, struct ap_info_t *ap_info,
> *(bp + 1));
> ap->rsn_ie.size = RSN_IE_BODY_MAX;
> }
> - memcpy(&(ap->rsn_ie.body[0]), bp + 2, ap->rsn_ie.size);
> + memcpy(ap->rsn_ie.body, bp + 2, ap->rsn_ie.size);
> break;
> case 221: /* WPA */
> if (!memcmp(bp + 2, "\x00\x50\xf2\x01", 4)) { /* WPA OUI check */
> @@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ int get_ap_information(struct ks_wlan_private *priv, struct ap_info_t *ap_info,
> *(bp + 1));
> ap->wpa_ie.size = RSN_IE_BODY_MAX;
> }
> - memcpy(&(ap->wpa_ie.body[0]), bp + 2,
> + memcpy(ap->wpa_ie.body, bp + 2,
> ap->wpa_ie.size);
> }
> break;
> @@ -832,8 +832,8 @@ void hostif_scan_indication(struct ks_wlan_private *priv)
> if (priv->scan_ind_count != 0) {
> for (i = 0; i < priv->aplist.size; i++) { /* bssid check */
> if (!memcmp
> - (&(ap_info->bssid[0]),
> - &(priv->aplist.ap[i].bssid[0]), ETH_ALEN)) {
> + (ap_info->bssid,
> + &priv->aplist.ap[i].bssid[0], ETH_ALEN)) {
> if (ap_info->frame_type ==
> FRAME_TYPE_PROBE_RESP)
> get_ap_information(priv, ap_info,
> @@ -2652,7 +2652,7 @@ int hostif_init(struct ks_wlan_private *priv)
>
> priv->aplist.size = 0;
> for (i = 0; i < LOCAL_APLIST_MAX; i++)
> - memset(&(priv->aplist.ap[i]), 0, sizeof(struct local_ap_t));
> + memset(&priv->aplist.ap[i], 0, sizeof(struct local_ap_t));
> priv->infra_status = 0;
> priv->current_rate = 4;
> priv->connect_status = DISCONNECT_STATUS;
> @@ -2675,12 +2675,12 @@ int hostif_init(struct ks_wlan_private *priv)
> INIT_WORK(&priv->ks_wlan_wakeup_task, ks_wlan_hw_wakeup_task);
>
> /* WPA */
> - memset(&(priv->wpa), 0, sizeof(priv->wpa));
> + memset(&priv->wpa, 0, sizeof(priv->wpa));
> priv->wpa.rsn_enabled = 0;
> priv->wpa.mic_failure.failure = 0;
> priv->wpa.mic_failure.last_failure_time = 0;
> priv->wpa.mic_failure.stop = 0;
> - memset(&(priv->pmklist), 0, sizeof(priv->pmklist));
> + memset(&priv->pmklist, 0, sizeof(priv->pmklist));
> INIT_LIST_HEAD(&priv->pmklist.head);
> for (i = 0; i < PMK_LIST_MAX; i++)
> INIT_LIST_HEAD(&priv->pmklist.pmk[i].list);
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_wlan_net.c b/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_wlan_net.c
> index 8c55428b71c7..9f4bd7c3ea12 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_wlan_net.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_wlan_net.c
> @@ -423,7 +423,7 @@ static int ks_wlan_get_wap(struct net_device *dev, struct iw_request_info *info,
>
> /* for SLEEP MODE */
> if ((priv->connect_status & CONNECT_STATUS_MASK) == CONNECT_STATUS)
> - memcpy(awrq->sa_data, &(priv->current_ap.bssid[0]), ETH_ALEN);
> + memcpy(awrq->sa_data, priv->current_ap.bssid, ETH_ALEN);
> else
> eth_zero_addr(awrq->sa_data);
>
> @@ -1364,7 +1364,7 @@ static int ks_wlan_get_aplist(struct net_device *dev,
> return -EPERM;
> /* for SLEEP MODE */
> for (i = 0; i < priv->aplist.size; i++) {
> - memcpy(address[i].sa_data, &(priv->aplist.ap[i].bssid[0]),
> + memcpy(address[i].sa_data, &priv->aplist.ap[i].bssid[0],
> ETH_ALEN);
> address[i].sa_family = ARPHRD_ETHER;
> qual[i].level = 256 - priv->aplist.ap[i].rssi;
> @@ -1454,7 +1454,7 @@ static inline char *ks_wlan_translate_scan(struct net_device *dev,
> iwe.u.data.flags = 1;
> current_ev =
> iwe_stream_add_point(info, current_ev, end_buf, &iwe,
> - &(ap->ssid.body[0]));
> + ap->ssid.body);
>
> /* Add mode */
> iwe.cmd = SIOCGIWMODE;
> @@ -1496,7 +1496,7 @@ static inline char *ks_wlan_translate_scan(struct net_device *dev,
> iwe.u.data.length = 0;
> current_ev =
> iwe_stream_add_point(info, current_ev, end_buf, &iwe,
> - &(ap->ssid.body[0]));
> + ap->ssid.body);
>
> /* Rate : stuffing multiple values in a single event require a bit
> * more of magic - Jean II */
> @@ -1612,7 +1612,7 @@ static int ks_wlan_get_scan(struct net_device *dev,
> current_ev = ks_wlan_translate_scan(dev, current_ev,
> // extra + IW_SCAN_MAX_DATA,
> extra + dwrq->length,
> - &(priv->current_ap));
> + &priv->current_ap);
> }
> #endif
> /* Read and parse all entries */
> @@ -1625,7 +1625,7 @@ static int ks_wlan_get_scan(struct net_device *dev,
> current_ev = ks_wlan_translate_scan(dev, info, current_ev,
> // extra + IW_SCAN_MAX_DATA,
> extra + dwrq->length,
> - &(priv->aplist.ap[i]));
> + &priv->aplist.ap[i]);
> }
> /* Length of data */
> dwrq->length = (current_ev - extra);
> @@ -2080,7 +2080,7 @@ static int ks_wlan_set_pmksa(struct net_device *dev,
> }
> break;
> case IW_PMKSA_FLUSH:
> - memset(&(priv->pmklist), 0, sizeof(priv->pmklist));
> + memset(&priv->pmklist, 0, sizeof(priv->pmklist));
> INIT_LIST_HEAD(&priv->pmklist.head);
> for (i = 0; i < PMK_LIST_MAX; i++)
> INIT_LIST_HEAD(&priv->pmklist.pmk[i].list);
> @@ -2178,7 +2178,7 @@ static int ks_wlan_get_firmware_version(struct net_device *dev,
> {
> struct ks_wlan_private *priv =
> (struct ks_wlan_private *)netdev_priv(dev);
> - strcpy(extra, &(priv->firmware_version[0]));
> + strcpy(extra, priv->firmware_version);
> dwrq->length = priv->version_size + 1;
> return 0;
> }
> @@ -2433,7 +2433,7 @@ static int ks_wlan_data_read(struct net_device *dev,
> read_length = priv->dev_size[priv->dev_count];
>
> /* Copy data */
> - memcpy(extra, &(priv->dev_data[priv->dev_count][0]), read_length);
> + memcpy(extra, &priv->dev_data[priv->dev_count][0], read_length);
>
> spin_unlock(&priv->dev_read_lock); /* release spin lock */
>
> @@ -3254,7 +3254,7 @@ static int ks_wlan_netdev_ioctl(struct net_device *dev, struct ifreq *rq,
>
> switch (cmd) {
> case SIOCIWFIRSTPRIV + 20: /* KS_WLAN_SET_STOP_REQ */
> - rc = ks_wlan_set_stop_request(dev, NULL, &(wrq->u.mode), NULL);
> + rc = ks_wlan_set_stop_request(dev, NULL, &wrq->u.mode, NULL);
> break;
> // All other calls are currently unsupported
> default:
> --
> 2.11.0
>
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