Re: checkpatch false positive for "do not use assignment in if condition"

[Joe Perches]

On 2026-05-09 17:20, Ethan Nelson-Moore wrote:
> On Sat, May 9, 2026 at 2:53 PM Ethan Nelson-Moore
> <enelsonmoore@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > These lines do not even contain =.
> > Could someone look into why this happened?
>
> The lines *after* the affected patch hunks do have an assignment in
> the if condition.

checkpatch is fundamentally stupid and an incomplete parser.   Rely on 
your brain to ignore its incorrect bleats when it's wrong.

FYI it's looking for a single equal sign in the statement