Re: [PATCH 04/20] media: saa7134: use semicolons rather than commas to separate statements

From: Julia Lawall
Date: Tue Sep 29 2020 - 12:46:10 EST




On Tue, 29 Sep 2020, Christophe JAILLET wrote:

> Le 29/09/2020 à 15:14, Julia Lawall a écrit :
> > Replace commas with semicolons. Commas introduce unnecessary
> > variability in the code structure and are hard to see. What is done
> > is essentially described by the following Coccinelle semantic patch
> > (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/):
> >
> > // <smpl>
> > @@ expression e1,e2; @@
> > e1
> > -,
> > +;
> > e2
> > ... when any
> > // </smpl>
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxxx>
> >
> > ---
> > drivers/media/pci/saa7134/saa7134-video.c | 7 +++++--
> > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/media/pci/saa7134/saa7134-video.c
> > b/drivers/media/pci/saa7134/saa7134-video.c
> > index 9a6a6b68f8e3..2ca963b04b3f 100644
> > --- a/drivers/media/pci/saa7134/saa7134-video.c
> > +++ b/drivers/media/pci/saa7134/saa7134-video.c
> > @@ -868,8 +868,11 @@ static int buffer_activate(struct saa7134_dev *dev,
> > lines_uv = dev->height >> dev->fmt->vshift;
> > base2 = base + bpl * dev->height;
> > base3 = base2 + bpl_uv * lines_uv;
> > - if (dev->fmt->uvswap)
> > - tmp = base2, base2 = base3, base3 = tmp;
> > + if (dev->fmt->uvswap) {
> > + tmp = base2;
> > + base2 = base3;
> > + base3 = tmp;
> > + }
> > video_dbg("uv: bpl=%ld lines=%ld base2/3=%ld/%ld\n",
> > bpl_uv,lines_uv,base2,base3);
> > if (V4L2_FIELD_HAS_BOTH(dev->field)) {
> >
> >
> Hi,
> this could be turned into a simpler:
> swap(base2, base3);

Yes. The conclusion is probably that it could be worth searching for swap
opportunities after this. There are a lot of patches to send on these
commas, and I would rather not deviate to something else...

julia