Re: [PATCH] staging: r8188eu: combine nested if statements into one

[Chang Yu]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2022 at 12:05:40PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> ...
> > Seems to work. But the rules which operation is done first && or == are
> > not too easy.
> 
> They are the way around you want them to be.
> == generates a truth value.
> && and || compare truth values,
> 
> The only 'wrong' operator priorities are & and |.
> The short-circuiting && and || weren't in the very early
> versions of C - the bitwise & and | were used.
> When K&R added && and || they left the priorities of & an | alone.
> I they they've later said they should have bitten the bullet
> and changed the priorities and all the existing C code
> 
> > I would prefer to have:
> > 
> > if (padapter && (pfree_recv_queue == free_recv_queue))
> > 
> > So it is very easy to read what is evaluated first.
> 
> That just starts adding too many () and makes more complex
> conditionals hard to read.
> 
> 	David
> 
> > 
> > But this is just my opinion and does not have to be right.
> > 
> > Thanks for your patch.
> > 
> > Bye Philipp
> 
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In my humble opinion it just boils down to personal preference in this
case. The kernel coding style guidlines don't seem to have a definitive
gold standard regarding this. I will leave the patch as-is for now, but
if anybody feels strongly that the () needs to be removed please feel
free to let me know and I'll make the change.