Re: [PATCH 2/5] staging: media: av7110: Fix various whitespace checkpatch errors

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Tue Oct 24 2023 - 00:12:27 EST


On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 08:24:58AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Mon, 2023-10-23 at 17:26 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 01:23:29AM +0200, Jonathan Bergh wrote:
> []
> > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/av7110/av7110_av.c b/drivers/staging/media/av7110/av7110_av.c
> []
> > > @@ -241,8 +241,8 @@ int av7110_pes_play(void *dest, struct dvb_ringbuffer *buf, int dlen)
> > > sync |= DVB_RINGBUFFER_PEEK(buf, 2) << 8;
> > > sync |= DVB_RINGBUFFER_PEEK(buf, 3);
> > >
> > > - if (((sync &~ 0x0f) == 0x000001e0) ||
> > > - ((sync &~ 0x1f) == 0x000001c0) ||
> > > + if (((sync &~0x0f) == 0x000001e0) ||
> > > + ((sync &~0x1f) == 0x000001c0) ||
> >
> > These should be:
> >
> > if (((sync & ~0x0f) == 0x000001e0) ||
> > ((sync & ~0x1f) == 0x000001c0) ||
>
> Generally, I believe it would be better to avoid '& ~constant'
> and use the positive form instead
>
> if ((sync & 0xfffffff0) == 0x000001e0) ||
> (sync & 0xffffffe0) == 0x000001c0)
>

To me it depends on if the 0x0f means something. It would be better as
a define instead of a magic number.

regards,
dan carpenter