Re: [PATCH] ethernet: Improve formatting of conditional statements

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 09:45:07PM -0700, Abhinav Srivastava wrote:
> Improve readability of conditional statements in the Octeon ethernet
> driver by removing unnecessary parentheses and adjusting line breaks.
> This change focuses on three functions:
> 
> - cvm_oct_common_change_mtu()
> - cvm_oct_common_set_multicast_list()
> - cvm_oct_set_mac_filter()
> 
> The modifications make the code more consistent with the Linux kernel
> coding style guidelines, specifically in regards to the formatting of
> multi-line conditional statements. No functional changes are made.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Abhinav Srivastava <atg271@xxxxxxxxx>

Your subject line looks odd for things that touch this file:

>  drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet.c | 15 ++++++---------

	$ git log --oneline drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet.c | head -n 10
	00d066a4d4ed netdev_features: convert NETIF_F_LLTX to dev->lltx
	c46d4073ec68 staging: octeon: ethernet: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
	5cd4dc44b8a0 Merge tag 'staging-5.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging
	8b6ce9b02672 staging: use of_get_ethdev_address()
	524b09ea34a4 staging: use eth_hw_addr_set() in orphan drivers
	a76053707dbf dev_ioctl: split out ndo_eth_ioctl
	9d31d2338950 Merge tag 'net-next-5.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next
	c295d3007ff6 staging: octeon: Use 'for_each_child_of_node'
	83216e3988cd of: net: pass the dst buffer to of_get_mac_address()
	179f5dc36b0a staging: octeon: repair "fixed-link" support

>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet.c b/drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet.c
> index a5e99cc78a45..77044b7b40da 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet.c
> @@ -248,9 +248,8 @@ static int cvm_oct_common_change_mtu(struct net_device *dev, int new_mtu)
>  
>  	dev->mtu = new_mtu;
>  
> -	if ((interface < 2) &&
> -	    (cvmx_helper_interface_get_mode(interface) !=
> -		CVMX_HELPER_INTERFACE_MODE_SPI)) {
> +	if (interface < 2 && cvmx_helper_interface_get_mode(interface) !=
> +	CVMX_HELPER_INTERFACE_MODE_SPI){

Surely that can't be right?  Did you run checkpatch.pl after you made
your change?  Please always do so.

Also use scripts/get_maintainer.pl to determine what mailing lists to
send stuff too.

thanks,

greg k-h