Re: [RFC PATCH v2 08/10] rtc: bd70528: Initial support for ROHM bd70528 RTC

[Jerry Hoemann]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 09:01:03AM +0200, Matti Vaittinen wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 01:26:56PM -0700, Jerry Hoemann wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 08:30:24AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > > On 1/25/19 3:05 AM, Matti Vaittinen wrote:
> > > > +static int bd70528_set_wake(struct bd70528 *bd70528,
> > > > +			    int enable, int *old_state)
> > > > +{
> > > > +	int ret;
> > > > +	unsigned int ctrl_reg;
> > > > +
> > > > +	ret = regmap_read(bd70528->chip.regmap, BD70528_REG_WAKE_EN, &ctrl_reg);
> > > > +	if (ret)
> > > > +		return ret;
> > > > +
> > > > +	if (old_state) {
> > > > +		if (ctrl_reg & BD70528_MASK_WAKE_EN)
> > > > +			*old_state |= BD70528_WAKE_STATE_BIT;
> > > > +		else
> > > > +			*old_state &= ~BD70528_WAKE_STATE_BIT;
> > > > +
> > > > +		if ((!enable) == (!(*old_state & BD70528_WAKE_STATE_BIT)))
> > > > +			return 0;
> > > 
> > > I think
> > > 		if (enable == !!(*old_state & BD70528_WAKE_STATE_BIT))
> > > would be much better readable. Even if not, there are way too many ()
> > > in the above conditional.
> > > 
> > 
> > The substitution is not equivalent to original.  I think you mean:
> > 
> >  		if (!!enable == !!(*old_state & BD70528_WAKE_STATE_BIT))
> 
> Thanks Jerry! Good catch! I originally wanted that all non-zero values
> of 'enable' would be 'true'. So maybe I just use the original approach
> but get rid of extra parenthesis which were pointed out by Guenter.
> 
> 		if (!enable == !(*old_state & BD70528_WAKE_STATE_BIT))
> should do it just fine, right?
> 

The use of "!!" to turn an int into one of two Boolean values (0 | 1)
is used extensively in Linux and as such might make the intent of
the code a bit clearer which I take as checking to see the states
match.

But, I will defer to you and Guenter on the question.

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Jerry Hoemann                  Software Engineer   Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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