[PATCH v2 05/12] staging: ks7010: remove unnecessary parenthesis

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 07:08:28AM +1100, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 02:04:20PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 03:47:05PM +1100, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> > > Checkpatch emits CHECK: Unnecessary parentheses.
> > > 
> > > Remove unnecessary parentheses.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <me at tobin.cc>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_hostif.c | 24 ++++++++++++------------
> > >  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_hostif.c b/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_hostif.c
> > > index a354e34e..b75ef1d6 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_hostif.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_hostif.c
> > > @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ inline u8 get_BYTE(struct ks_wlan_private *priv)
> > >  {
> > >  	u8 data;
> > >  
> > > -	data = *(priv->rxp)++;
> > > +	data = *priv->rxp++;
> > 
> > Are you sure this is ok?  I would have to dig out a book to find the
> > ordering rules here...
> 
> I also had to get out K&R. The reason I decided to look it up and make
> the change wast that with the parenthesis I also still needed to think
> about the precedence. Adding the parenthesis in no way makes the
> precedence *more* clear. And the checkpatch warning of course.
> 
> I ran this code to check it
> 
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <stdint.h>
> 
> /*
>  * Confirm precedence 
>  */
> 
> int main(void)
> {
>         uint8_t buf[3];
>         uint8_t *bp = buf;
>         uint8_t data;
> 
>         buf[0] = 0;
>         buf[1] = 1;
>         buf[2] = 2;
> 
>         printf("buf = [%d, %d, %d]\n",(int)buf[0], (int)buf[1], (int)buf[2]);
>         printf("bp before: %d\n", (int)*bp);
>   
>         /* data = *(bp)++; */
>         data = *bp++;
> 
>         printf("bp after: %d\n", (int)*bp);
> 
>         return(0);
> }

Great, so everyone has to check it is valid, so please leave it alone.
We write code for people to read, and be able to modify in the future.
Don't force someone to have to really think hard about something trivial
like this.

thanks,

greg k-h