Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723bs: place constant on right side of equality operator
From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Mon Mar 23 2026 - 09:42:30 EST
On Mon, Mar 23, 2026 at 06:52:35PM +0530, Prithvi wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2026 at 11:19:40AM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 21, 2026 at 02:55:36PM +0530, Prithvi Tambewagh wrote:
> > > Place constant 0xFF on right side of equality operator when checking
> > > value of hw_channel_plan to fix checkpatch.pl warning and conform with
> > > the Linux Kernel coding style.
> >
> > First of all, in the very same function there are more of a such.
> > And hence the Q: have you checked the entire driver? Please do.
> Thanks for the correction...While checking out other places requiring similar
> change, I observed the other place in the function where constant is on left
> side of equality operator:
>
> if (
> (false == pHalData->bDisableSWChannelPlan) &&
> rtw_is_channel_plan_valid(sw_channel_plan)
> )
> chnlPlan = sw_channel_plan;
>
> Here, the formatting of if statement can be improved and we can also replace
> (false == pHalData->bDisableSWChannelPlan) with :
>
> !pHalData->bDisableSWChannelPlan
>
> Would it be alright to add these changes to v2 of this patch itself since
> they are related to the code having constant on left side of == operator?
Yes, but I also meant to go through more files in this driver for the same
style issue.
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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko