Re: [PATCH] staging:xgifb: Fix Comparisons should place the constant on the right side of the test warning

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Wed Apr 27 2016 - 10:00:03 EST


On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 09:27:39AM -0400, YU Bo wrote:
> Fixed checkpatch.pl's warning 'Comparisons should place the constant on
> the right side of the test'
>
> Signed-off-by: YU Bo <tsu.yubo@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/staging/xgifb/vb_setmode.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/xgifb/vb_setmode.c b/drivers/staging/xgifb/vb_setmode.c
> index 50c8ea4f5ab7..8bf253c224ad 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/xgifb/vb_setmode.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/xgifb/vb_setmode.c
> @@ -1208,7 +1208,7 @@ static void const *XGI_GetLcdPtr(struct XGI330_LCDDataTablStruct const *table,
> if (pVBInfo->LCDInfo & EnableScalingLCD)
> tempdx &= (~PanelResInfo);
>
> - if (table[i].PANELID == tempdx) {
> + if (tempdx == table[i].PANELID) {

I don't understand why checkpatch is complaining about this one... It
seems like a false positive. Maybe it's because .PANELID is a rubbish
variable name.

regards,
dan carpetner