Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] bsr: do not use assignment in if condition

From: Mukesh Ojha
Date: Thu May 16 2019 - 04:00:52 EST



On 5/15/2019 9:47 PM, parna.naveenkumar@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
From: Naveen Kumar Parna <parna.naveenkumar@xxxxxxxxx>

checkpatch.pl does not like assignment in if condition

Signed-off-by: Naveen Kumar Parna <parna.naveenkumar@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Mukesh Ojha <mojha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Cheers,
-Mukesh

---
Changes in v3:
The first patch has an extra space in if statement, so fixed it in v2 but
forgot add what changed from the previous version. In v3 added the
complete change history.

drivers/char/bsr.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/bsr.c b/drivers/char/bsr.c
index a6cef548e01e..70de334554a8 100644
--- a/drivers/char/bsr.c
+++ b/drivers/char/bsr.c
@@ -322,7 +322,8 @@ static int __init bsr_init(void)
goto out_err_2;
}
- if ((ret = bsr_create_devs(np)) < 0) {
+ ret = bsr_create_devs(np);
+ if (ret < 0) {
np = NULL;
goto out_err_3;
}