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

From: YU Bo
Date: Wed Apr 27 2016 - 10:31:52 EST


On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 04:58:36PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
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.
Here, it seems like to notice upper case identifier on the left.

https://lkml.org/lkml/diff/2015/8/27/469/1
Best Regards,

regards,
dan carpetner